How Swedes embrace Slow-Tech
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This past Tuesday we had sent out our podcast a bit early (Roman is too trigger happy with the send button, and probably had too much coffee…)
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Lagom, Kafferep and Fika – Sweden’s answers to happy living
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The promising future of the Post Tech Era
How you can be part of the “slow tech” movement
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I loved this podcast. I sometimes feel "out of it" because I avoid apps, but it makes it easier to remove them because they aren't even there.:)
It's a balance. I recently deleted my Instagram account and then wondered if I am taking myself out of the game of life? I can almost hear Roman say, "How bout a board game?"..thanks to you both for the continued inspiration to stay present in the human experience of being alive. It is radical!
Sweden can sound so idyllic
As long as one overlooks the membership in NATO (joined 2 years ago) and the full participation in war preps for the European theater in the coming WW3,
Or the implementation of social impact investing and digital IDs,
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2021/01/06/an-open-letter-to-zach-buch-about-impact-agriculture/
Sweden just embarked on the world’s first Health Impact Bond {link} focused on diabetes in partnership with Social Finance UK and Social Finance Israel. This project is being carried out in connection with United Nations Development Goal 3, Health. I am including a map below outlining the complexity of this project as it relates to global investment in wearable tech, mHealth, smart fabrics, and DNA nudge bands tracking food purchases.
Or this,
In their 2014 book, The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, former editors of the free market Economist magazine, applauded Sweden as model for the future. The authors, whose explicitly right-wing political orientation is made clear by their contention that the assault waged on the working class by Thatcher and Reagan did not go far enough, wrote, “The streets of Stockholm are awash with the blood of sacred cows. The local think tanks are overflowing with fresh ideas about welfare entrepreneurs and lean management. Indeed, Sweden has done most of the things that politicians know they ought to do but seldom have the courage to attempt.”