Thursday, April 16, 2009

Daily Blog: Saving Civilization

The article was titled “The End of Paper?”

Fortune, March 16, 2009, page 66

It began as an apparent report on the continuing demise of the newspaper. But as I flipped through the five pages – it was the highlighted quotation on the last page that caught my attention: “We’re not only going to save publishing,” says E Ink CEO Russell Wilcox, “we’re also going to save civilization.”

Often, it seems that in the places where people live the emphasis is on building cities even if it is done at the expense of community and civility.

The Wilcox approach is a good one. More emphasis should be given to finding solutions that, when implemented, solve not only a specific problem but enhance community and civilization.

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