"We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we've bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine."

"...the level of pay inequality was at a cooler 38, rather than where it is today, a hotter 46."

"The dominant response, in short, is a dogged belief that what we call the American Way of Life will prove somehow indestructible. We will keep on consuming, spending, wasting, and driving, as before, at any cost to anything and everybody but ourselves." by Wendell Berry in Harper's Magazine.

The funny thing about waste is that it's all relative to your sense of scarcity. from wired.

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream. from wired.

from wired.

our production and consumption patterns.

process to make higher learning more agile, adaptive and imaginative. from nyt.

LIVE from the NYPL & WIRED. Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, Steven Johnson.

michael pollan and the waning health of america's food systems. from npr.

creative economy, conceptual age. from nyt.