Very Interesting Documentary on Social Networking

Here is an amazing documentary highlighting an enormous shift in our culture, driven by the internet, that may one day transform the way we govern ourselves, own corporations and businesses, and inspire more participation in politics. It's an hour long and takes awhile to develop, but by the end my mind was fired up with the many possibilities generated by the film.

Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.

Shai Agassi's plan for electric cars

Here is a bold plan to convert our transportation model from one based on fossil fuels to one based on electrons created with renewable energy. And this energy is estimated to cost just 2 cents per mile (not including infrastructure costs, of course) by 2020. Yes, we also need to invest in effective and large-scale mass transit systems to make owning a car less of a necessity. But we need to scale electric car use as quickly as we can if we're going to blunt the worst effects of global climate change.

It's bold visions like this that offer the kind of hope we need. Yes, we will have to find a way to recycle all the materials from the cars we replace, but what an opportunity for jobs, eh?