Relation of Global Villages to Independent thinkers

AndriusKulikauskas: Hi Franz, Thank you for inviting us here. Today I thought about an ethic of independent thinkers http://www.openleader.com/index.php/OurEthic/Welcome and how that might relate to various aspects of a flu pandemic. I'm also curious how the culture of independent thinkers might relate to global villages.

FranzNahrada: The site with the reference does not exist any more, but some answers are given here: http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GlobalVillages/Definition

Dead links:

• the speech in German that I gave as a final conclusion for the conference "Neue Medien in der Stadtteilarbeit" is maybe the most comprehensive account of my position (MS Word Document): ei http://www.stadtteilarbeit.de/Seiten/Tagung/dokumentation/nahrada.doc
• Ivan B. Schonfeld has written a good synopsis of the exciting possibilities that IT holds for urban development beyond hyperconsumerism and how it might revitalize somehow thoughts that share the loose label "arcology": http://www.geocities.com/arcology_IT/index.html