Communications

Best Ideas

  1. The Global Ideas Bank
  2. Using Internet as a resource for social innovation
  3. Internet's New Civilization Network
  4. Intelnet and the Bank of New Ideas
  5. World Wide Web's inventor
  6. International non-verbal languages with links in English
  7. ShareText, the ShareWare book or article
  8. Main libraries entitled to a digital copy of every book
  9. Any book teleprinted on demand to local shop
  10. Information stamps for the poor
  11. Reader-friendlier books
  12. Ubiquitous computing
  13. Getting paid for reading e-mail
  14. A way to prevent telesales calls
  15. Getting your magazine distributed by a newspaper
  16. Getting specialist shelfspace from a bookshop
  17. Hippies slouching towards Bethlehem?
  18. Planetary Connections newspaper
  19. Discuss action plans earlier in conferences

Social Inventions

  1. Homo Sapiens Version 1.0
  2. Heaven and hell in Virtual Reality
  3. Multi-User Adventures
  4. Newsletters during conference sessions
  5. Visual minutes of meetings
  6. The transformation of television
  7. A directory of social solutions
  8. Black Ice magazine
  9. Cheap subs. for unsold copies
  10. Change of address machines
  11. Copyright gives too much protection
  12. Six tests for a privacy law
  13. Visions for the 21st Century
  14. SF and the race between education and catastrophe

Book of Visions

  1. Diffusion of social inventions
  2. Innovation Diffusion Game
  3. The Encyclopedia of 13,167 World Problems
  4. Reinventing your metaphoric habitat
  5. Problem maps like star maps
  6. How are the Institute's forecasts for the nineties getting on?
  7. New Paradigms Newsletter
  8. Social forecasts
  9. Better World Society
  10. Greensat
  11. Fifteen hours of quality ITV per week
  12. Advertising checklist - Social Desirability Ratings (SDR)
  13. A tax to discourage unapproved ads
  14. Microfiche Publishing
  15. Translation by phone in 140 languages
  16. Computerised info resource network
  17. Many-to-Manys
  18. The Circle Letter
  19. Computer matched group members
  20. Projects and Ideas Exchange (PIE)
  21. Structuring a conference for 310 people in 38 minutes
  22. Checklist for evaluating conferences
  23. Voting 1 to 9 on database contents
  24. Meeting view-sampling machines
  25. Shorter meetings
  26. Putting both hands up in a meeting
  27. Community Counselling Circles
  28. Debates in the year 2490
  29. Dream Network Bulletin
  30. Collecting readers' letters as an obsession
  31. 'Dear Sir', a magazine written by its readers
  32. Bisociation - the Fractal Method
  33. Ways of improving brainstorming
  34. An options market for ideas
  35. Brain Clubs
  36. Creative Slip Writing
  37. HyperCard
  38. Coin- through-the-wall-phones
  39. Return to sender stickers for junk mail
  40. The Neal's Yard DeskTop Publishing launderette
  41. High tech suburban offices, rentable by the hour
  42. Rural 'telecottages' in Sweden
  43. Using your fax to stop torture
  44. Fax machines at postal sorting offices
  45. QED, a high participation suggestion scheme

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