Milgram’s 37 (we do what we are told) by Peter Gabriel from the wonderful “So” album is related to the Milgram experiment. This was a social experiment by the late Stanley Milgram that showed how many people were actually prepared to give a possibly lethal shock to another if told to do it.

Within this one line is one our biggest crimes.  With this excuse we have committed the worst acts throughout history.

We do what we are told…

This beautiful song came to mind when watching something that turned me back onto my original course and not take the easy way out.

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What is the one resource that truly belongs to you? What is this resource that you have during your whole life that is yours?

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Corporations are requiring and pushing us to give the one resource that we cannot give without losing our life. What is that resource and why does the reward for ten years’ service bring it home personally to me.

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I enjoy watching many of the talks given by people at TED (Technology, Entertaining, Design), a small non-profit organisation devoted to spreading ideas that are worth listening to. This one by Michael Sandel, a pioneer of open education, who teaches political philosophy at Harvard is called ‘The lost art of democratic debate’, which highlights how important debates are often avoided by politics.

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With the problems of the world today you must have felt at some time that there has got to be a better way. Well we live in a system created by us, so by definition there IS a better way. What can we do though to create the best way of all?

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How many times do you think the ‘wheel’ has been invented, and recreated? How much time and effort has been wasted in creating the ‘wheel’ – it should have only been invented once. Once an idea is created is needs a structure to hold it, so that others can find it and expand on it. Not hidden within the departments and offices of the world only to waste billions in resources that do the same thing later. We need the Internet to grow up and learn from itself. Continue reading →

With a growing population in limited resources, with so many growing in broken homes, unhealthy environments and having limited opportunity here is an idea for consideration. Not to let anyone have children unless they are capable of bringing them up properly.

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I actually do read the terms and conditions on software packages, but as an average intelligent person do I understand the implications of it all? Worse still they seem to be getting worse over time. Do they protect real people or an entity that doesn’t really exist?

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With growing concerns of privacy many people want to know how to remove all of their information from Facebook and leave. The answer lays in just one URL on Facebook, but there maybe a little preparation you need to do first.

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A simple idea – the idea that the world can be shared equally amongst everyone.

Taking some time out from site creation I have been looking around the Wayback Machine and found some of my old posts. This one has been with me for some time but I posted a little on my old OpenOutsource site back in 2003 – a One World Dream. Continue reading →