Want to understand why our kids will wor

Want to understand why our kids will work much more intelligently than us? The tracks are being laid now in IC & finance. http://ow.ly/4BjAt

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Web 3.0 & Social Business: 2011 Predicti

Web 3.0 & Social Business: 2011 Predictions/Recommendations | The Global Human Capital Journal http://ow.ly/4gCVB

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Does the web make people hungry to write

Does the web make people hungry to write? Of all subjects at The Great Courses, #1 is Building Great Sentences. http://ow.ly/3gkJO

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Great read if you have some time—Relig

Great read if you have some time—Religion, Journalism, and the New American Orthodoxy by Charles Chaput http://ow.ly/2L9hy

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Midterms an "electoral hurricane" for

Midterms an “electoral hurricane” for Democrats? LCG Election Monitor has some interesting data suggesting so… http://ow.ly/2KYSQ

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@colincurtisks at Future Majority looks at Netroots, The Tea Party & The Millennials and asks who’s right about America? http://ow.ly/2ELTK

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20TENSION (pt 3): Rasmussen says 68% of

20TENSION (pt 3): Rasmussen says 68% of U.S. voters prefer smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes. But… http://ow.ly/2DXJW

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20TENSION: 67% of Political Class Say U.

20TENSION: 67% of Political Class Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction, 84% of Mainstream Disagrees – Rasmussen http://ow.ly/2DXap

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Texting generation doesn't share boomer

Texting generation doesn’t share boomers’ taste for talk http://ow.ly/2paye

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Michael Barone on Next American Century

Like George Friedman in the realm of global geopolitics, Michael Barone is an expert with very few peers in his field, American political history.  Both view the next century (or in Friedman’s case, The Next 100 Years) as an American Century.  It is hard to argue against them.

But when we narrow the zoom and look more closely within American culture and the shifting communication environment that surrounds us, and within that ecology try to look a century down the road, what do we see?

That is the subject of my peculiar interest.  And as I was fortunate enough to have study political philosophy and our nation’s founding under Dr. Stephen Schneck, I am concerned at how far from our Constitutional moorings we have already shifted, now that we enter into an inherently difficult cultural transition into a globally networked environment.

I won’t go further into those trends and concerns which most interest me at this point, but I will say that while Barone’s video here shows a keen ability to look back at American history to make sense of today’s trends–which is relevant perspective, without a doubt–nonetheless I am not convinced any analysis of today’s politics is as complete as it must be until it grapples with the specific precedents in human communication changes in history that most closely compare to today.

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