John Hughes, “Can South Africa keep tapping World Cup spirit? - CSMonitor.com,” August 26, 2010, Link
There is nothing really new in this article, but it strikes me how "easy" solutions might look from the outside. Our problems will be solved when:
- crime is controlled
- upliftment has occurred and poverty has been reduced
- corruption is lessened
...and in the process we also need to manage:
- millions of needy people outside South Africa putting strain on our current infrastructure
- impact of world wide terrorism also impacting us
Now can any person or group supply only 2 serious and workable suggestions on solving just ONE of the items above? The suggestion must include a thorough thinking pattern on how it will influence the outlying contextual and transactional environments impacting the problem statement.
TREES SHIFT UPWARDS AS CLIMATE WARMS, DATA SHOW by D Perlman. SFGate, 12 June 2010 : Link
What I find amazing about this is that I often think it takes long for nature to adapt to change. According to this article it actually happens a lot quicker than we think. It is faster than the pace companies sometimes take to adapt to a changing business environment. ....well maybe its because at least the trees know that their environment is changing...
WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR BRAINS by P Tucker. The Futurist, Jul/Aug 2010 : Vol 44 Issue 4, p61-62
Some food for thought in here especially since I can identify with "The more we use the Web, the more we train our brain to be distracted, to process information very quickly and very efficiently but without sustained attention". I do think there are some fundamental differences if I compare the mental activity of "working through a complex analysis problem" vs "doing research scanning the web".
Maybe the important thing is to learn how to do both and not let the one completely dominate the other.
