Hey, me and Agent Ethan Gray's Evokation is now up in the form of a WordPress blog:
Check it out. In a nutshell what this is, is using cellphones to get information out regarding various topics, such as general education, and in my case how to treat water using just the sun and some plastic bottles.
Check it out ;).
Added by Paul Freund on May 19, 2010 at 5:24pm —
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The fact is that this is by far the most likely event to break out iin South Africa. It has already happened twice (although with less severity the second time), and it will most probably happen again. The most probable cause of it is the crippling rate of poverty in South Africa.
Now I'm sure you're wondering what I mean by xenophobia? You probably know that the dictionary xenophobia means fear of foreigners. However in South Africa it has a different, more sinister…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 11, 2010 at 7:07pm —
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Matin Dyer has already put up a post regarding the experiment that we conducted. Go check it out - it's called The Future Of Money - My transaction.
Done that? Good. Now, my comments on the 'experiment'. Martin covered most of the experiment very well. However, I feel he left out one very important part. You see the thing which Martin left out when he was writing his post, is that at our school Coke Bottles (NOT Coke Bottle lids) are already a de facto…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 11, 2010 at 6:45pm —
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Basically the first thing you need to do in a pandemic is get reliable medical information out. So this means one of two things in my mind. It either means that the media has to give out the facts in an easy to understand and factual way (this means instead of sensationalising the situation and making it worse).
So the first thing I would do is call all the major T.V networks and newspaper companies, and see if they would co-operate. Failing that (although preferably concurrently)…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 11, 2010 at 6:21pm —
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When I'm a hundred years old, there will be no indigenous knowledge. The way I see it, by 2094, there will be no more countries, or the countries differences will be so negligible as to be not worth mentioning.
We are already moving towards having bigger countries with one centralized culture. Whether this is a good thing is up for debate, but it is undeniable that is it is happening. And I believe it will continue happening. To the point where the entire world is globalized. In such…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 8, 2010 at 7:52pm —
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http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/fight-aids-empower-women-in-south-africa/Thats my project. A project I am proud of. The project that could have saved my life. It's too late for me. I got HIV before I really knew how easy it was to get it. I'm still strong at the moment, but I could die at any time really. Thats a sad thought for me. But a happy thought is that although my life is gone, I…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 8, 2010 at 7:34pm —
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For World Water Day 2020 we are gonna do something awesome, something mindblowing, something world changing. What everyone who participated in the event would do would be twofold. The first part would be to pay an entry fee of R40 or $5. All of this money would go to various charities or organizations that help bring water to third world, underdeveloped countries. If there was a major marketing push, the money created by this alone could be an amazing amount. The second part of the project…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 8, 2010 at 7:07pm —
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Hello this is Paul Freund speaking for Citizen X news, and boy is it sure crazy here down it Philanthropolis. For those who are unaware of what Philanthropolis is, it is the first town that has not ounce of cash in the town at all.
Everyone does thier job, be it farming or doing the books.
Everything is supplied for, and the wh*** town is entirely self-sufficient.This is important, as in previous attempts at a town like this, the wh*** project has failed when the outside…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 8, 2010 at 7:00pm —
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In 2020 I will be celebrating Mothers day, like it will be tommorow. We will go to breakfast early on and get a nice meal from a restruarant that is powered totally by a generater which operates from the own waste the restruarant generates in the form of food waste. After that we go back home to bask in the glory of life. When we get home we turn the lights on, and they are powered by awesome wind turbines 600 km away. It is godlike.
Amen to that.
Added by Paul Freund on May 8, 2010 at 6:54pm —
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In 2020 on my dinner table I hope to find a meal that is made mostly from cheap synthetic foods. The beef on my plate, looking so tender, will not be made from the slaughter of an innocent cow. It will instead by a subsitute that tastes and smells exactly like beef, but is not. The mash potatatoes on the side of the beef will be made from potatoes that were grown in my backyard garden. The vegetables on the side, broccoli and cuc**ber are a similar story. The plate we are eating on is fully…
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Added by Paul Freund on May 8, 2010 at 6:49pm —
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So in response to the water crisis issue personally I believe the LifeStraw is the one device that could make the biggest difference.
In essence, the LifeStraw is a water purification device. But what sets it apart is its price. It really is an amazing piece of technology. Now. I could go typing forever about it, but there is an article on Gizmodo that does it better than I really ever could. Go read it now please :).…
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Added by Paul Freund on April 21, 2010 at 4:34pm —
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I'm still behind... Oh well :D
Anyway, me in 2020 - should be a fun topic.
In 2020 I hope to be studying at a university, and not much more to be honest. I'm 16 at the moment and although I'm trying to do something to make a difference such as outreach programmes an such, it's frustrating with the lack of difference that you can make at this age.
At a university will this change? Can you make a difference there? I don't know, but my feeling is that it would be a…
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Added by Paul Freund on March 17, 2010 at 6:01pm —
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Hey guys,
I'm a little bit behind obviously.
So, lets get started.
This was my obvious 'secret' that I chose, and I think it's very interesting.
Look, the fact is, is that to most people in Africa all fancy technology means nothing. These people have virtually nothing, a lot of the time they are struggling to survive. Technology does not help them!
We need to provide skills, that will elevate people up. Be this just farming, or higher end skills, THIS is…
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Added by Paul Freund on March 11, 2010 at 12:31pm —
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Ahem.
Aubrey Meyer. You have never heard of him I can almost guarentee ('scuse the spelling).
Aubrey Meyer is one of my idols. He is a musician, an extremely skilled violinist, and that immediately attracted my attention, as I play the Viola. But Aubrey, who used to live where I do in Cape Town is one of my idols. He gave up playing professional music to try and save the world. Now, I'm going to let this blogpost on the Guardian talk a lot more eloquently than I… Continue
Added by Paul Freund on March 11, 2010 at 12:30pm —
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