There is nothing more awesome than to look up and see thousands of stars spread across a dark sky. If we are able to be from light pollution, we can see about 2,000 stars if we look up from any place on earth on a moonless night. Astronomers think that there are trillions of stars…
Earthrise : my adventures as an Apollo 14 astronaut – Mitchell, Edgar D. – On February 5, 1971, Edgar Mitchell jumped off the last rungs of a ladder connecting him to NASA’s Antares spacecraft and landed with two feet on the Moon. Following the disastrous Apollo 13 mission, Mitchell was one of three astronauts to…
“Los miembros del colectivo compartían inspiraciones teóricas, políticas y económicas comunes, como la economía participativa (ParEcon), un modelo económico propuesto por el teórico Michael Albert y el economista Robin Hahnel (Albert y Hahnel, 2003), que propone una alternativa al capitalismo y a la economía planificada apoyándose en los valores de equidad, solidaridad, diversidad y autogestión.” (Goldenberg)
“… las redes sociales digitales asumieron un papel más unificador que articulador, permitiendo la coordinación de movimientos en forma rápida alcanzando a un mayor número de personas, pero fallando en la creación de movimientos más sustentables.” (L. Daudén)
“Open data refers to the proactive public release of data by (primarily) public administrations, to enable value creation by citizens and businesses, greater transparency of government action, and civic participation.”
“… it’s important to remember that technology alone will not lead to [positive] social change. This will only happen if technology is appropriated by each and every one of us and anchored in local knowledge and collective participation. It requires people to make a call on how and why this or that technology should be used and adapt it to the political and socio-economic context in which they live.” (E. Campelo)
