Arquivo para a ‘Economia’ Categoria
Beginning of the ideas of the Homeland – World
06
Jan
Edgar Morin and Anne B. Kern called Fatherland- Earth environment of the early fifteenth century, 
and explains that the universalist religions ” opened up since the beginning of the earth to all me ” (p. 21) but “at the beginning of the planetary era the themes of ‘good wild’ and ‘natural man’ antidotes were, it is true that many weak “against the contempt by civilized barbarians , but it will be around that develop the ‘nation- state’ of modernity .
The evolution of these ideas will make the European anthropology mainly seen in the archaic not ‘ noble savages ‘ , but ‘ early childhood ‘ the authors state ( p. 21 ) .
But are precisely the ‘ theorists ‘ of ‘ infant primitive ‘ that trigger the 1914-1918 war , when a shot in Sarajevo kills the heir to the Habsburg throne ( p. 22 ) and ” a local attack in a remote corner of the Balkans determined an explosive chain reaction that ” just covering almost all Europe.
The authors show that the analysis can not be simplistic , ” the explanation of war is Marxist ( rivalries between imperialism ) or Shakespeare ( triggering turmoil and fury, frenzy of desire for power ) , because war is a monstrous historical product of copulation strength of Marx and Shakespeare “(p. 23 ) pass judgment .
And advances in the analysis of the period as follows: ” The world economy is shaken by upheavals in the early 1920s , until, in the middle atmosphere newfound prosperity , the great crisis of 1929 has lead to global disaster economic solidarity : Crashing Wall Street leads to economic depression all continents “(p. 24 ) .
” The 30 years are dramatic ” … ” Nazi Germany invades Norway, Netherlands, Belgium , France in 1940 ” … comes to Eastern Europe and Africa … “A total of 100 million men and women engaged in global conflict”
End of the war , founded the UN (United Nations), restart the Cold War, “the planet is polarized into two blocks , locking up everywhere an ideological war with no remission” (p. 26).
What lessons do we draw the bombing of Guernica (April 16, 1937) and the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) ?
Homeland-World and other themes
03
Jan
The book of Edgar Morin and Anne Brigitte Kern “Patria-Mundo” (Homeland-W9rld), 
published in 2000, in Portugal for the Instituto Piaget, in collection Society in Epistemology, and second edition 2001 edition ( the edition I have ) , and in Brazil by publisher southern fringes in the 2000 edition focuses on the emergence of was planetary .
Shows how the so called “Western civilization” and its culture of modernity invaded the planet and disappeared with ancient cultures , as “the Inca empire and the Aztec Empire reign in the Americas and beyond Cuzco as much Tenochtitlan in population , monument and splendors Madrid Lisbon, Paris, London, capital of young and small nations of Western Europe “(p. 15 ) in the early fifteenth century.
Morin and Kern describe the beginning of ” accelerated development , exchanges intensify , nation states create roads and canals ” (p. 17 to indicate how slowly ” cities , the nation-state , then the industry and technical experience a boost like no other civilization “(p. 18 ) .
Until recently , in the early twentieth century , ” although already committed to an unbridled arms race , France, Germany , England and Russia are not yet directly attack each other in their metropolitan territories ” (p. 18 ) , but begin to divide the world ” traces of chalk ” (p. 19 ) .
England dominates one fifth of the globe in the early twentieth century , ” the Indies , Ceylon , Singapore , Hong Kong , numerous islands in the West Indies and Polynesia , in Nigeria , in Rhodesia , Kenya , Uganda, Egypt, Sudan , Malta and Gibraltar . ”
Along with this race “on the global expansion of capitalism and technology, the globalization of markets is a worldliness of competitions and conflicts ” (p. 20 ) , in which multiple processes occur ” demographic, economic , technical , ideological , etc. . ” ( page 20 ) and ” globalization of ideas.”
Public Debt and year of Soccer Cup
27
Dec
We commented last year that it was time to curb public debt in Portuguese clearer, 
stop the spending spree like we’re a millionaire and no poor country.
Based on inaccurate data, the government will not disclose their spending spree despite making the greatest propaganda surrounding the “public transparency ” , the second debt inaccurate IPEA (Govern Applied Research Institute) and UnB (University of Brasilia) is somewhere around U.S. $ 2.8 trillion .
As will be this year, is expected to increase , now imagine we have a GDP of around U.S. $ 3.5 trillion, and GDP (gross domestic product) this year should be a lower GDP, means we are committing almost all national income .
Pray the playbook of good economy , that if you are committing half of their income on debt , is compromising the household budget .
To be clear, you win US$ 1,500 and has debts of around US$ 1,000 which is a your chance to get out of it ? If you economize and not save ?
Yeah we are in year Soccer Cup with delayed and spending works (see last corruption of the minister Renan) without much awareness, imagine the movie that goes on in people’s heads for 2014 ?
Historic agreement in Bali
09
Dec
The meeting of the WTO (World Trade Organization) in Bali , Indonesia , in four days this first
week of December, managed to unlock the Doha Round , a series of meetings initiated in 2001 , aimed to build rules to make more agile commerce between countries and that were stalled since 2008.
Brazilian Roberto Azevedo , took over the reins of the organization in September , oteve also a personal victory , the ambition to improve the performance of its predecessor, Pascal Lamy, who was to make the Doha Round forward .
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The Brazilian. director general of the organization , said: “For the first time in its history , the WTO fulfill their promises” and added “We again introduce the word ‘ world ‘ in the World Trade Organization I am very proud .”.
The impasse of Doha were: negotiation among its 159 countries of a package of new rules on liberalization and facilitation of trade – refused the U.S. and Europe to discuss subsidies to their agricultural sectors , which basically is disadvantage for countries in agricultural development.
But Europeans and Americans criticize the resistance from other countries to cede on issues such as liberalization of services sectors , intellectual property protection and the granting of preference to domestic products in government procurement .
I think the agreements are still shy and has a long way to go, but the whole step taken in Bali is hopeful for all mankind.
Tablets continue winning PCs
05
Dec
Study done by consulting firm IDC released this Wednesday ( 4/12 ) indicated that PCs 
(personal computers) sales continue to plummet in Brazil , comparing the third quarters of 2012 and 2013 was 15%
In the same period there was an increase in the marketing of tablets coming to 134 % and the tablets were excluded from the category PC , considering only desktops and notebooks .
In the third quarter of this year were sold in Brazil about 3.4 million personal computers (excluding tablets), these 61% were laptops ( notebooks ) and 39 % , desktop computers (desktops).
Between July and September this year, were sold in Brazil 1.8 million tablets despite growth in comparison with 201 , there was a decrease of 2 % compared to the previous quarter.
The forecast for the fourth quarter is an even greater volume volume in the year , with 2.6 million units sold , making it a lock in with 7.9 million tablets, indicating growth of 142 % compared to 2012 .
The outlook for 2013 is to exceed the volume of 10 million tablets .
Web 3.0: coining words and give them meaning
22
Nov
Web is not just that I’m talking about, but also and especially of people, make sense,
especially human, the things around us requires thought and act more and more just on impulse .
On this blog I spoke earlier of the word selfie, but I have already spoken of Instagram and ordinary people and everyday landscapes that go through our day to day “photographic”, so too is the case of Web 3.0, or fashion trend?
John Markoff was who coined the word Web 3.0 in the New York Times , Web 2.0 has already happened , it created hundreds or thousands of applications ( Apps of considering the cell ) and included the common user as producer of information , now photos , posts , comments and ” hashtags ” are there calling our attention , but these people should ALWAYS be seen and heard , they were not.
The problem of our day to day , and also that the Web is a reflection and not an idealization of the day – to-day as some think , is that much that ” lacks ” direction , and found thousands of photos to look at , words and videos means that we need them or them offering new significance .
John Markoff suggested simple questions such as: “I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11 year-old child”, but actually thought of business , as own title and article suggest, by example Spivak company, Radar Networks, working on the holding of the content of social computing sites , which allow users to collaborate in gathering and adding their thoughts to a large amount of contents, travel movies.
But Web 3.0 now seems to be finding its way , projects like DBpedia and VIAF ( Virtual International authorit File) are indicating a more social than technical , although it may contribute to this, there is still a way in this ” construction ” .
Interactive map shows deforestation
18
Nov
The map developed by researchers at the University of Maryland, USA, shows the evolution of global deforestation data
since 2000, the Global Forest Change.
The application is available online for free, and the data on the map of Brazil clearly show that deforestation advances in the Midwest, Amazon, Pará and northeastern.
Data were collected from 350,000 images collected by the Landsat 7 and the data of the largest deforestation include Malaysia, Indonesia, Paraguay and Angola.
According to Matthew Hansen, Maryland professor who heads the project: “This is the first map of forest change that is consistent globally, and also under the relevant local aspect”, and hopefully an awareness overall.
The world can be seen as a whole in many ways, is a society-world.
Rise of smartphone and WiFi
16
Nov
The rise of smartphone adoption has been rapid device market millstone stable in five years reached 1
million, now two years has reached 2 million, report of Ericson says.
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The growth will continue as inexpensive models become more available in emerging markets , this market is that Motorola / Google is eyeing the Moto G, already launched in Brazil and another on price and user who did not migrate .
The data networks of the world also come to expand to keep up the demand for data that is already big plus is expanding, the problem is the connection.
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But current analysis , such as the EcommerceTimes says 90 % of the world population will be covered by WCDMA / HSPA in 2019 , i.e. WiFi network , and even more , 65 percent will be covered by 4G/LTE networks , will the Brazil too?
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LTE connections in North America will surpass all other parts of the world , according to a forecast from the site , will reach 85 % coverage by 2019 .
Professionals and the common person
01
Nov
Jeff Howe to write ” The power of the crowd ” showed the development of Apple and Microsoft showing
in chapter 1 that ” in the beginning was all very simple ,” but forgot to Dennis Ritchie , without which there would be neither Apple nor Microsoft , deceased shortly after Stevie Jobs , he had created a language that enabled the development of hobbyists , and later Linux , doing something that could be ” shared ” with the common people , and so someone could develop a microcomputer and software in your home .
Thus , the criticism in ” The Cult of the Amateur ” by Andrew Keen , who also wrote Digital Vertigo , yes it is possible , but not generalize , raging with amateurs clarifies that anyone can publish a blog , post a video on youtube or change a entry in Wikipedia , and yes there is … the years I read newspapers with opinions directed and TVs with canned culture , he protested ?
But listen to others , and try to establish a “consensus ” are not simple things , just the will ” staff person ” , these people reading more and hearing more become more ” professional ” , that many professionals with ” own opinion ” geniuses whose sole reason for being popular is saying what others want to hear , rather, it is easy and unprofessional .
Listen many people , trying to understand the trends of the ” crowd ” and move towards ” consensus ” means listening to many real , loving and giving to many people , not just the powerful, the owners of editorial groups , hearing only the elitism and what what is ” cult ” means an interest in the destination and the dignity of the common person .
Networks can do this , as they are more horizontal , but by no means always do this, after all we have a culture of contempt for the ” common man ” , but I have seen artistic photos on Instagram (see the photo here), interesting videos on youtube and I’m not ashamed to consult Wikipedia , but everything I try to formulate my own idea and concept.
The brain Carr and the Internet
24
Oct
For over a century we are questioning modernity , the Enlightenment and our values , suddenly 23 years now
found a scapegoat : the internet and one application that is Web.
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Take this fact to say that the Web with all pomp and mystification that many attribute to it , is nothing more than an application in the last layer of the internet, and yes this means the connection between millions of machines and people.
So I take seriously Nicolas Carr a harsh critic of the internet , he participates in the design of cloud computing World Economic Forum , regularly writes about technology and culture in The Guardian , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , The Financial Times , Die Zeit , the Times and other newspapers, is member of the Encyclopedia Britannica , but has no entry in Wikipedia, but he is there.
In “The shallows” , he clarify that the issue is before the internet thing he knows, though mental journey that Carr in his own brain , the birth of the alphabet, the Gutenberg press , the anticipation of the computer by Alan Turning and even the event of cartography and the appearance of the watch.
New slide to not see a convergence of “media”, but a merger, it reduces the internet to “a binding force of all technologies precursors “: typewriter and typography ; map and clock , calculator and phone, mail and library ; radio and television .
In new reductionism applies to Taylorism , work method in assembly lines to what he calls mental, ” In the past the man was first. In the future the system must be first. “, is not true, the future is different of the past, it is law of history.
What Taylor envisioned for manual labor , Carr Google applies to mental work , creating a “business of distraction ” in which intelligence is now seen as the excellence and speed in data processing , instead of observation and contemplation .
Now the “society of the spectacle” , “society of the replica” , the text of Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ,” was published in 1955 , the fragmentation of knowledge and superficiality are themes from long then you need to find the time and the real motives of this “superficiality” contemporary .
