Lately I came across some some op-eds, which made me think, that some people feel the change in the air. It was a short spark of hope, perhaps now we all get to a public discussion get going, about how to organize our journey into the future. This spark ignites every once in while, but is soon burned out. It started this time with Thomas L. Friedmann and his op-ed the Earth is Full (1) in the New York Times June 7, 2011, in which he refers...

Modern live is unthinkable without insurances. A whole industry is living off the uncertainties of live. People have insurances against theft, fire,  car accidents and so forth. Let’s not forget the Health insurance debate in the USA, where about 90 million people do not have it. A part of our salary is deducted for pension  and unemployment. Also a form of a insurance policy! The insurances are taken as a precaution, to be...

The 1984 Nobel prize winner, Bishop Desmond Tutu (1), published on the 21. June 2011 in the Huffpost an article called Our Glorious Diversity, Why We Should Celebrate Difference (2). It is difficult not to agree with Mr. Tutu and what he has written. He described the state of Diversity in a very elegant way. Our world, the whole universe is build on diversity. Let us start from the supposedly smallest parts of nature Atoms, which, as...

In Oracle, about an hour drive outside of Tuscon, the capitol of Arizona/USA, is a research facility called Biosphere 2 (1). The task is very ambitious as the name Biosphere 2 indicates.  It tries to emulate Biosphere 1, which is Earth. The main objective was to acquire the knowledge and experience for building such closed circuit stations in outer space. The other objective was to better understand the interaction- and dependence of the...

The Israeli news paper Haaretz, July 24.2011 (1), reported about a demonstration, which took place in Tel Aviv the night before. It was held in protest, against the catastrophic housing situation. In Israel in general and especially in Tel Aviv. This demonstration was the mobile form of protest, the immobile one is the Tent City (2) in the north of Rothschild avenue in Tel Aviv. The housing situation in Tel Aviv is, no joke, catastrophic....

The following examples, which can be found in every city might seem of minor interest, but it does show clearly how empty-headed our politicians sometimes are. Modern cities are built for cars. The common pedestrian is taken into account as something marginal. Since at junctions the traffic lights have to change colors every once in a while, to let the cars from each side of the junctions move, pedestrian crossings are possible. This...