Things to think about

I've been listening to / watching a few interesting things of late.

Firstly I've been listening to the audio from the various HOPE conferences. Primarily concerned with technology and hacking, there are some folks with interesting politics featured as well.

Jello Biafra for one.

Another interesting speaker is Robert Steele, who pretty much founded the concept of open source intellegence. Lots of interesting stuff on his website (if a bit difficult to navigate).

Mr Steele mentioned a group called TED, who have sponsored a fairly exclusive conference for 20-some years, with a lot of *very* interesting speakers.

The youtube channel has a couple of hundred archived talks from such folks as Stephen Hawking, Richard Branson, Nicholas Negroponte, J.J. Abrahms, Richard Dawkins and many others on topics from technology through politics, art, business and culture. The conference mission of "ideas worth spreading" is a very good one. Although I can see I'm gonna chew up a bunch of bandwidth watching everything...