ETech Presentation - Saturday House

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:14:41 -0700
From: "Robert Eickmann" <rober...@gmail.com>
To: saturdayhouse@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [saturdayhouse] Re: ETech Presentation
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Actually the interesting societal migration is into cities. I believe
it was in 2006/2007 that we hit a demographic mile stone in that world
wide more people live in cities that do not.

Smaller cities like Lansing MI, and Cleveland OH are finding
themselves emptying out as people migrate into the larger cities. And
the rural small town has become a pale ghost of what it was. Farmers
are farming larger and larger tracks of land with far fewer people.
Egg and Daughter dances and other county based community events just
aren't happening outside of Amish communities, there just aren't
enough people.

And those who are successfully doing the migration from city to
country, are those knowledge workers who have built up enough wiffie
(or social capital) in the city or in their community to convert that
into $$. Otherwise your rural and poor. If your a hot shot AS/400
programmer you can successfully work from home from BFG otherwise....

For example  Accenture a company that features a hugely mobile
consulting force, mandates that if your a consultant you can live
anywhere as long as your only an hour from a major airport. IBM (I
work By Myself) same story in their consulting arms.

Rob





On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:46 AM, anders conbere <aconb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Justin Martenstein
> <justinmartenst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For the last two months or so, I've been thinking about submitting a
>> presentation to ETech 2009 about Saturday House and it's spinoffs (Six
>> Hour Startup and Giraffe Labs, specifically). Any objections? Anyone
>> else interested in helping out / co-presenting?
>
> I would be really interested in talking about the migration OUT of
> cities, as workers become remote, and the role that co-working, and
> community organizations like saturday house play in those changes.
>
> ~ Anders
>
>>
>> Obviously, I'll be working on the presentation through the group. I
>> may come down and brainstorm some ideas for the proposal on this
>> Saturday.
>>
>> Some of the themes for this year's conference seem particularly
>> relevant to the work we're doing.
>>
>> City Tech *
>> Materials & Mechanics
>> Personalized Healthcare
>> Mobile & The Web
>> Geek Family *
>> Synthetic Biology
>> Nomadism & Shedworking *
>> Sustainable Life *
>> Life Hacking & Information Overload *
>>
>> http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/08/etech-2009-cfp-living-reinvent.html
>>
>> --
>> Justin Martenstein
>> justinmartenst...@gmail.com, (425) 802-3104
>> http://www.meetatthepig.com
>> http://www.sixhourstartup.com
>> http://www.twitter.com/jmartenstein
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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