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  • The Spice Must Flow

    Parallels between Libya and Frank Herbert’s Dune After having read Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic Dune (written 1965) and learning more about Libya and its history due to recent events, I couldn’t help but notice quite a few similarities between the novel and actual politics surrounding the country. I am no expert on Dune nor…

  • Unleashing Personal Abundance

    Creating an Abundant Society through Sharing As we come to think of ways to improve the world, we are often drawn to the construction of utopia within our minds, yet find it hard to take actual steps to realise its potential. A central theme to many of these visions is the idea of a society…

  • Starfish: A Vision of a Distributed Network

    The most prominent internet services such as search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing), public information repositories (Wikipedia) and social networks (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) are highly centralised. Blogging platforms, cloud computing and online storage add to the amount of information and processing power which is not under direct user control but entrusted to third parties. This makes…