Mobility is destiny

The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever.

On October 13th, 

@paragkhanna

 speaks at Long Now about why mobility is destiny.  https://t.co/4a2KUvmmWy https://t.co/uCzV0gUAsl

In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-constant search for resources, stability and opportunity.

Driven by global events from conflicts, famine, repression and changing climates - to opportunities for trade, social advancement and freedom of thought - humans have relocated around the globe for millennia.

But what happens when billions of people are on the move? As climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse, governments destabilize, and technology disrupts, we’re entering a new age of mass migrations.

Futurist 

@paragkhanna

 uncovers the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for our future and asks what map of human geography will emerge.

His book, MOVE, will be published on October 5th. Preorder and learn more here: https://t.co/vIwSiTzsaR #movethebook

Mahabharata and Hastinapur excavation, Painted Grey Culture (PGW) Culture (1100-800 BCE).

A thread of excerpts from the book “Socio-Economic Archaeology of India” by Dr. M.K. Dhavalikar

#IncredibleMahabharata https://t.co/f4hpaVVklW

Launch of "China's Great Road", my new book on socialist China's extraordinary progress in social/ economic development & human rights. 3 June with @vijayprashad @BrianBeckerDC @RadDesai 

@WangwenR In N America buy at https://t.co/y9roEJhbJb In Europe at https://t.co/aEQ3xNvgfQ https://t.co/kxT93YnaiG

How has recording technology changed the music industry?

Test your knowledge with our trend quiz!

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Geoff Wisner

"In The Pattern in the Carpet, her recent memoir cum history of the jigsaw puzzle, Margaret Drabble pays tribute to Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec, an enormous experimental novel, jigsaw puzzles."

https://t.co/ixYOjE6Rno

"Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves"

@rvp #RaviVisvesvarayaSharadaPrasad @rvp The Central Vista Project & The Loss of The Public-Trust Doctrine https://t.co/DLjes8zeFF, see more https://t.co/IIyamIYbxo

Get your copy of "Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance" from #CatoBooks... https://t.co/izth261B8W

A new book from @AkyolinEnglish

challenges views on blasphemy and apostasy long-held by some orthodox Sunni scholars.

https://t.co/a9QbKvGmIg

My fascination with Balakrushna Das's compositions in films like Sri Lokanath, Lakshmi, Manikajodi, Nuabou, Jiban Sathi, and Sadhana etc. forms the basic template. I'm not aware of technical aspects but I just love them. Why should I compromise or sacrifice that before "system?"

"Why should I explain to others what I know so intimately," asks Guru Ramahari Das in his Odishi Pathashala series. His effort at systematisation is commendable and with his level of technical expertise he may be right but along with outsiders I too feel threatened. So I protest.