Here are the slides for our last session. The sources are in the slides ... Jocelyne Bourgon and Beth Simone Noveck. Gordon Brown's argument is in his book (probably), but otherwise you could look at this Cisco white paper or the executive summary. The New York Times coverage of Brazil (Mayara Vivian) is here and here or download here and here. If you are interested in how to deal with the positive and negative effects of technology you should read this book by Kevin Kelly.
Here are some interesting graphs from Kevin Kelly's splendid book: What Technology Wants. The light bulb would have been invented anyways - there is no monopoly on ideas - don't be afraid to share yours!
If not by Edison then by someone else - The Technium has a mind of its own - its like a biological system (complex adaptive system). Technology is inevitable.
Stuff is becoming more complex
Banning - or trying to stop the march of the Technium does not work.
And we love technology - so adoption times - or the path to ubiquity gets shorter and shorter.
