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Here’s a use for social media. Are the cops doing it on the ground?  And possibly an entrepreneurship oppirtunity to create a ‘facebook for criminals’ with a really secure interface so it cannot be hacked by the cops.

Somali Pirates Tracked Through Twitter | Shipping Tribune

North America Day 1 — University of Leicester

2012 Follow the Sun — University of Leicester

Schedule and time zones — University of Leicester

FAQs — University of Leicester

And what does it mean for people? for our kids? grandkids?

I remember what Siddhartha said in Hermann Hesse’s novel.  When he applied for a job after being a monk for years, the owner asked him what he could do that would help his business. He said, “I can think and I can fast.”  What we are seeing in America is the fasting of manufacturing. As for the thinking, to be at the top of the pyramid we have to have a high level of capability today. Even conventional education is not enough. A computer programmer as machine operator in a factory?

Manufacturing in America « The Operations Room