Communications
Best Ideas
- The Global Ideas Bank
- Using Internet as a resource for social innovation
- Internet's New Civilization Network
- Intelnet and the Bank of New Ideas
- World Wide Web's inventor
- International non-verbal languages with links in English
- ShareText, the ShareWare book or article
- Main libraries entitled to a digital copy of every book
- Any book teleprinted on demand to local shop
- Information stamps for the poor
- Reader-friendlier books
- Ubiquitous computing
- Getting paid for reading e-mail
- A way to prevent telesales calls
- Getting your magazine distributed by a newspaper
- Getting specialist shelfspace from a bookshop
- Hippies slouching towards Bethlehem?
- Planetary Connections newspaper
- Discuss action plans earlier in conferences
Social Inventions
- Homo Sapiens Version 1.0
- Heaven and hell in Virtual Reality
- Multi-User Adventures
- Newsletters during conference sessions
- Visual minutes of meetings
- The transformation of television
- A directory of social solutions
- Black Ice magazine
- Cheap subs. for unsold copies
- Change of address machines
- Copyright gives too much protection
- Six tests for a privacy law
- Visions for the 21st Century
- SF and the race between education and catastrophe
Book of Visions
- Diffusion of social inventions
- Innovation Diffusion Game
- The Encyclopedia of 13,167 World Problems
- Reinventing your metaphoric habitat
- Problem maps like star maps
- How are the Institute's forecasts for the nineties getting on?
- New Paradigms Newsletter
- Social forecasts
- Better World Society
- Greensat
- Fifteen hours of quality ITV per week
- Advertising checklist - Social Desirability Ratings (SDR)
- A tax to discourage unapproved ads
- Microfiche Publishing
- Translation by phone in 140 languages
- Computerised info resource network
- Many-to-Manys
- The Circle Letter
- Computer matched group members
- Projects and Ideas Exchange (PIE)
- Structuring a conference for 310 people in 38 minutes
- Checklist for evaluating conferences
- Voting 1 to 9 on database contents
- Meeting view-sampling machines
- Shorter meetings
- Putting both hands up in a meeting
- Community Counselling Circles
- Debates in the year 2490
- Dream Network Bulletin
- Collecting readers' letters as an obsession
- 'Dear Sir', a magazine written by its readers
- Bisociation - the Fractal Method
- Ways of improving brainstorming
- An options market for ideas
- Brain Clubs
- Creative Slip Writing
- HyperCard
- Coin- through-the-wall-phones
- Return to sender stickers for junk mail
- The Neal's Yard DeskTop Publishing launderette
- High tech suburban offices, rentable by the hour
- Rural 'telecottages' in Sweden
- Using your fax to stop torture
- Fax machines at postal sorting offices
- QED, a high participation suggestion scheme
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