Yes what I can first see at this web looks absolutely beautiful

Congratulations to one and all

I am particularly interested if anyone else is to discuss how we could
popularize the science is story paper. I have been arguing recently -
including in appear I gave in Delhi the week before Xmas - that we need
to praise amateurs as well as experts in circulating who is advancing
what ideas with potential for improving life

This seems particularly relevant if we are to make this networking world
more harmonious and one where are online connected comes down to zero
degrees of separation on vital information flows

In Britain we've made a huge mistake with public broadcasting -
celebrities who now input to it are in many cases neither expert in
broadly connecting way nor worth heroising in celebratory ways. We have
a once in 10 years opportunity to reform that here and I would invite
anyone who's country who still has public mass media to at least
rehearse this issue before they next get a chance to say what their
country's mass media could be influencing in this age where so much
learning needs to cross silos of discipline, of culture, of application,
of whom is a country or government or corporation for anyway

http://futureofbbc.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_futureofbbc_archive.html


More urgently: its already clear that its no good only having the
experts involved in earthquake detection or HIV prevention; and I
suspect its no good in only having the experts involved in economics or
telling the stories that propagate ideas whether we call these stories
advertising of the way diversity of the human race could inspire each
other and get down to some of the biggest challenges which I for am
trying to make some conversation games out of so that all people can
start equal in their conversation.

I have a particular plea after my experience in Delhi. I would love to
see people in the West starting to do an overview curriculum of which of
Gandhi's practice have relevance now more than ever, and in such a way
that one could see at least the element of an 8 year old's course, a 12
year old's , a 16 year old's and a 40 year old's. Perhaps those are not
quite the right age breaks but pre-teen is a very important time to know
your beliefs; and if you ever get to the age to make decisions that
compound all over the world, one would have hoped that you had been
influenced by Gandhi-type values before you came to such a stage. The
fact is that most of the people with biggest power in the West are
Gandhi-illiterate and this may yet cost most of 6 billion people more
than I can account for. If the 80 days the British people have left
before they are told that they have no more input for 10 years on their
British Broadcasting does not excite you into interaction, then another
deadline is 2007 when Delhi is hosting the mother of all congresses for
those who wish to try to work the way that Gandhi would approve of.

Cheers
Chris macrae, London, wcbn007@...
http://sixbillionstars.blogspot.com