Keith Adam Britt's Blog – April 2010 Archive (8)

I was gonna make a Google map of my resilient city, but I thought about it for a moment and that didn't make much sense. I think the infrastructure need for a resilient city is not structural, but informational. We need our residents connect through informational networks (compulsory and otherwise), not through a physical coming together.

A unique way to use Ushahidi in the Southeastern United States? We're really not prone to many natural disasters. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards are all exceptionally rare. Combine that with are exceptional 911 service, and Ushahidi seems almost useless here. That is unless Ushahidi can actually report on a crisis that's not visible to the naked eye... Continue

In 2020, I think the majority of teachers will be women... for both boys and girls, closely resembling our current gender roles here in America's educational system. That's it. Not much to say, but a lot to hope for.

Too easy. I'm in the Army. I've been to Afghanistan and I'm going back soon. This is what I do. I make situations possible to empower women in that country. This time around I'm going to follow Greg Mortenson's model.

Holy crap... I can't believe this wasn't mentioned in the mission details. If you have read Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea or Stones into Schools, you are missing a seminal work on empowering women through education. If you care anything at all about this issue, you must read these books.

It's 2020. A new bank just opened up. They are strickly an online only presence. They have no brick and mortar representation. All deposits must be electronically submitted by scanning and then email your checks or you can mail your deposits to them, but they really prefer you don't. By the way, they've pretty much consolidated your wh*** financial life: checking, savings, equity and bond investments, insurance, everything. The name of this bank is USAA. Continue

This is kind of drastic and we decided to do it before this mission, but my wife and I have decided not to save for retirement. Instead we're investing in as much education as we can, a few pieces of real estate, renewable energy systems, and building up a substantial emergency fund (~ $100,000 US). As for retirement, we simply just plan to keep earning money doing something we love doing, even if we only earn a small amount. If our properties are paid off and our energy is free, or expenses… Continue

The days of money are nearing an end. Essentially, what we've set ourselves up for in the developed world (and what is currently bleeding over into the undeveloped world) is a system of electronic credits. We simply have an electronic account that keeps getting debited. Money... rather currency... is no longer necessary. Continue