How To Thrive in the Next Economy

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Roam capture metadata — Author: John Thackara · Reading Status: Books Read · Source: https://medium.com/@kwharrison13/2017-in-books-b2316c63784a · Tags: #Books

==Highlighted Quotes==
“Politicians with their inherited fear of hungry crowds with pitchforks, have long been persuaded that only BigAg can feed the world- but a stream of scientific studies is dissolving that consensus. Hunger is a distribution problem — not a scarcity of food, nor surplus of people.” #Food
In reference to smart cities, “more data for its own sake will not make a city ‘smart’ if all that computational power is misdirected. On the contrary, it’s likely that high-tech complexificiafion will make things worse. Throughout history, each new transport revolution has proved far more expensive to maintain and operate than was anticipated.”
“According to the Rockefeller Foundation, ‘game changing advances in science’ represent just 10 per cent of the key trends impacting health futures. In Canada, the primary factors that shape health have been found not to be medical treatments at all…they found that the primary factors shaping the health of Canadians were their lifetime living conditions: early childhood, education, current employment, income, housing, community cohesion, etc.”
Money trap — https://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2013/nov/15/spanish-co-op-workers-occupy-plant