brainwagon

On the way home I stopped to pick up a few things, and decided to catch up on my Podcasts while pushing the cart around. I was initially not that interested in I.T. Conversations which had the vague title Emerging Worldviews by Thomas Barnett, but wow! It’s an amazing tour-de-force, dynamically presented and covering the economic, political and military development of the world, and why we are encountering difficult times. I hate it when politicians speak to us as if we are stupider than we really are: by contrast, Barnett speaks to us as if he believes we are smarter than we probably are. Refreshing. I’ll be adding his weblog to my reading list and will probably order his book The Pentagon’s New Map.

Great stuff!