デジタル世界における政府と市民のグローバルな同盟関係によって、ウイルスなど刻一刻と状況が変わる事態や多様な市民のニーズにも迅速に対応できるとオードリー・タンは期待を込める（雑誌『WIRED』日本版VOL.43より転載）。
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テクノロジーとデモクラシーの間で引き裂かれた自由の国アメリカ／ポスト・レーガンのアメリカを探して：#01
およそ40年にわたって続いた「レーガンの時代」が終わりを迎え、アメリカはいま、「ポスト・レーガンの時代」という分岐点に向き合っている──。デザイン・シンカーの池田純一は、現在のアメリカをこう分析する。いったい「レーガンの時代」とは何だったのか。それが終わりを告げることにより、今後アメリカはどう変化していくのか。テックとデモクラシーを基底に据えることで浮かび上がってくる現代アメリカの社会文化をひもとく新連載！
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Tax Loopholes and Revolving Doors (Occupy K Street)
How Accounting Giants Craft Favorable Tax Rules From Inside Government [ungated] – “Lawyers from top accounting firms do brief stints in the Treasury Department, with the expectation of big raises when they return.” also btw…
This Is How America’s Ri…
Paris is taking space back from cars. Here’s how.
The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working – “The French capital is quickly cutting automobiles out of daily life. David Belliard is the deputy mayor behind it.”[1,2] (previously) Over the past six years, Paris has done more than almost any city in t…
It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile
Enough with the GDP — it’s time to measure genuine progress – “Unlike GDP, the Genuine Progress Indicator is designed to measure economic performance from the perspective of ordinary American households, not corporations or Wall Street investors.”[1,2]…
The Innovation of Modular Housing: How Buildings Learn Pattern Languages
Apartments Built on an Assembly Line [ungated] – “The pandemic put a general crimp in housing construction, but made a California factory that churns out prefabricated housing extra busy.”[1,2] Mr. Holliday, who co-founded the factory with Larry Pace, …
Constructed Worlds, Group Beliefs and Narrative Consciousness
Three Simple Policy Heuristics – “The most important thing to understand is this: Harm ripples, kindness ripples. People you hurt go on to hurt other people. People who are treated with kindness become better people, or more prosperous people, and go o…
Common Prosperity
Vaccinated Democratic Counties Are Leading the Economic Recovery – “The 520 counties Biden won account for fully 71% of U.S. gross domestic product, while the 2,564 that Trump carried produced just 29%. In other words, America’s economic engine is blue…
How A “Smart City” Watches You
Whose Streets? Our Streets!
2020-21 “Smart City” Cautionary Trends & 10 Calls to Action to Protect and Promote Democracy.
A thorough and well argued exploration of how ‘Smart Cities’ are eroding privacy, democracy, social justice and freedom.
Is Taiwan Next?
“Nancy had given up her career to help Hong Kongers in exile. She wanted to protect Taiwan’s own nascent democracy, but she wasn’t sure where that had really gotten her. Still, she was happy she had.”
In Taipei, young people watched as the Hong Kong p…