63 - Progress

This week is also a new year, looking back, have we made any progress? Bisbee Arizona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee,_Arizona Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, urban laboratory http://arcosanti.org/ Scott Galloway on the Four Horsemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCvwCcEP74Q Brotopia by Emily Chang https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum Thriving in an Age of Acceleration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSh2kHa29cE Crime in New York plunges to a level not seen since the 1950s https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/nyregion/new-york-city-crime-2017.html?_r=0 Scott Galloway at 5:46 discusses the Manhattan project https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_amazon_apple_facebook_and_google_manipulate_our_emotions/transcript#t-788449 American life expectancy is getting worse https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/why-are-so-many-americans-dying-young/510455/ Rietveld Schröder House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietveld_Schr%C3%B6der_House Shenzen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen Blobitecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blobitecture Ai Wei Wei http://aiweiwei.com/ Xu Zhen aka MadeIn Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwj8S0K2I8 Xai Guo-Qiang, Chinese artist who uses fireworks (Jeremy got this very wrong!) https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cai-guo-qiang-sky-ladder-netflix-652061 Dieter Rams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children Zuckerberg’s goal for 2018: ‘fixing’ Facebook http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/04/technology/mark-zuckerberg-2018-goal/index.html Lo and Behold, Herzog, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tZ8JsZvg ** Commercial Break ** Jordan Draper’s TOKYO SERIES game http://www.darkflightgames.com/#/tokyo-jidohanbaiki/ Steven Pinker on progress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnitLNObR7c Chomsky responds to Steven Pinker on Violence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0n4dbHbdA Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u9meHJFGNA Survival shows https://www.google.ca/search?q=survival+shows&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA727CA728&oq=survival+shows&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3539j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Bomb Cyclone shuts down thousands of flights http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-airports-cancel-flights-bomb-cyclone-winter-storm-2018-1 Steve Turner gallery http://steveturner.la/ There Will be Blood milkshake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hFTR6qyEo Clayton Christensen milkshake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGtw2C95Ms