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Twenty-five years ago, Professor Elise Boulding (Professor Emerita of Sociology of Dartmouth College) opened his article entitled The Family as a Small Soceity with these words:

Our major challenge as human beings in the ninth decade of the twentieth century is to overcome widespread feelings of helplessness and despair over our apparent inability to have any effect on the social processes that grind on around us. We approach the second millennium of the Christian era overwhelmed with problems of scale and complexity, unsure of the survival of the species itself.

My answer to that challenge is to call attention to the oldest of human groupings, the familial group; archaeologists have identified household sites for homo erectus and mulier erectus from two million years ago and more in the Rift Valley of Africa.

What do you think?

Kick-Off

This article started off being about mining in Kenya. Then, after further research, the train of thought went to the placement of Kenya's colleges and universities in world ranking. And I find myself here directing you to several references that may be good information to begin 2007.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/ is the location of a great video lecture by Thomas L. Friedman summarizing his book “The World is Flat.”

ABOUT THE LECTURE:
In his latest book, The World is Flat, Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-door neighbors.”

Today, “individuals and small groups of every color of the rainbow will be able to plug and play.”

Friedman’s list of “flatteners” includes the fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of Netscape and the dotcom boom that led to a trillion dollar investment in fiber optic cable; the emergence of common software platforms and open source code enabling global collaboration; and the rise of outsourcing, offshoring, supply chaining and insourcing. Friedman says these flatteners converged around the year 2000, and “created a flat world: a global, web-enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of time, distance, geography and increasingly, language.” At the very moment this platform emerged, three huge economies materialized -- those of India, China and the former Soviet Union --“and three billion people who were out of the game, walked onto the playing field.”

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Thomas L. Friedman won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He became the paper's foreign-affairs columnist in 1995. Previously, he served as chief economic correspondent in the Washington bureau and before that he was the chief White House correspondent.


HERE ARE TWO MORE BOOKS THAT WILL BE GOOD READING IN 2007:
'The End of Poverty' by Jeffrey Sachs
'The Mystery of Capital' by Hernando de Soto

Embrace

Within the realms of all the super-universes,

let it be known that

Love holds all things together.

For Continuing to Visit

For continuing to visit my All About Kenya blog.
I am going to be expanding the articles, information and products that are offered here over the coming months and into 2007.

I hope that you have enjoyed the entries so far and will visit more often as I increase input that is "All About Kenya."

Soul Profile

What are the best qualities you display in your closest relationships?

Sincerity & Compassion

Devotion & Commitment

Beauty & Joy

Power Defined

...Power doesn't have to show off.

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Power is confident,

self-assuring,

self-starting and

self-stopping,

self-warming and

self-justifying.

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When you have it, you know it.

(from The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - pg 142)