Effective Forecasting - Assume You Are Wrong
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/11/Paul_Saffo_Secret_to_Effective_Forecasting Technology forecaster Paul Saffo discusses the importance of questioning one's own assumptions when attempting to predict future events. ----- As part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking, technology forecaster and strategist Paul... Read more
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- -: Effective Forecasting - Assume You Are Wrong
February 8, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/11/Paul_Saffo_Secret_to_Effective_Forecasting Technology forecaster Paul Saffo discusses the importance of questioning one's own assumptions when attempting to predict future events. ----- As part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term T...
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- -: Effective Forecasting - Valuing Failure
February 8, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/11/Paul_Saffo_Secret_to_Effective_Forecasting Technology forecaster Paul Saffo outlines the importance of acknowledging past experience when forecasting future events. ----- As part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking, techno...
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- -: Freedom, Capitalism and Morality - Eric Foner
September 23, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/06/03/Eric_Foner_Freedom_in_America_1776-2008 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, argues that traditionally-held American values of free-market capitalism and Christian morality are inherently contradictory. ----- In th...
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- -: The Dalai Lama - Capitalism, Socialism, and Income Inequality
October 10, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/26/His_Holiness_the_Dalai_Lama_at_The_Aspen_Institute Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, gives his perspective on capitalism, Marxism, and the widening global gap between rich and poor. ----- The Aspen Institute and co-chairs Margot Pritzker ...
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- -: Alan Greenspan - Capitalism and the Economic Crisis
October 13, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/02/Alan_Greenspan_Markets_and_the_Judiciary Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan predicts that the current global economic crisis may revive the international debate between capitalism and socialism. ----- Alan Greenspan discusses Market...
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- -: Lessons from Reagan and Thatcher - PM John Howard
May 8, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Uncommon_Knowledge_John_Howard The Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson interviews former Australian Prime Minister John Howard on the economic legacies of 1980s conservative leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. "The ledger is very much on the ...
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- -: John Bogle Slams Managerial Capitalism
June 9, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/13/The_Culture_that_Spawned_the_Crisis_A_Closer_Look John Bogle, founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group, holds the managers of mutual funds liable for the financial crisis. He blames the "sea change" in the nature of capitalism -- from "traditiona...
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- -: Cocoa Protocol: Helping to End Child Labor in West Africa
September 17, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/09/RIGHTS_Kevin_Bales_on_Ending_Slavery_and_Human_Trafficking Kevin Bales, author of The Slave Next Door, discusses how the Cocoa Protocol is helping to eradicate child labor in West Africa's cocoa industry. "It's the first time in history that an entire...
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- -: Hugo Chavez: Capitalism to Blame for Climate Crisis
December 17, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/16/President_Hugo_Chavez_Lambasts_Capitalism_at_COP15 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez links capitalism to global warming during an address at the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen. "A ghost is stalking the streets of Copenhagen...it's capitalism, c...
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- -: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Rails Against Capitalism at COP15
December 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/17/Irans_Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_Addresses_the_COP15_Summit Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks out against capitalism and materialism, and the role he says each play in fueling global warming. He blames the crisis on the endless cycle of consumptio...
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