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Rethinking Our World
Paul Summerville • May 3, 2013

This feature on MIT Media Lab examines ground breaking technologies that will reshape our world.

Financial TImes -- Inside the MIT Media Lab

The dark side of the digital revolution: when the state controls the technology.

Wall Street Journal -- The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution

And new work.

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LimeSpot Solutions Inc. -- Ford and Social Media
Paul Summerville • May 2, 2013

The social media revolution is shaping main street economics.

This presentation is about how social media is being used to 'humanise' Ford.

Is such a thing possible?

Watch. (ed's note: start at minute 3).

Zero to 60: Ford`s Social Media Story

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LimeSpot Solutions Inc. -- At the Creation
Paul Summerville • April 29, 2013

This article from McKinsey speaks directly to the revolution in commerce that will be driven by new technologies. 

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LimeSpot Solutions Inc. -- The Logo
Paul Summerville • April 27, 2013

Among the hundreds of other things we have been doing over the past few weeks, Aidin, Majid, and I have settled on our logo.

Originally we had a lime where the 'o' in LimeSpot is but we concluded that the logo made us think of a Lime drink rather than a leading edge e-commerce marketing technology solutions company.

One of the things that playing around with name generated was combining the 'e' with the 's' as in 'e-commerce' and 'solutions'. 

The logo will look much better when we are profitable!

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A Little Local TV Time
Paul Summerville • April 9, 2013

Citizen's Forum in Victoria - Discussion about the November by-election, the sewage issue, legalisation of cannabis, a guaranteed annual income, and the Liberal leadership race.

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To Be or Not To Be
Paul Summerville • March 14, 2013

What I am listening to today.

Spring ~ Four Seasons ~ Vivaldi

Just a cartoon today.

Olivier's Hamlet film (1948): To Be Or Not To Be

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Winston Churchill Society of Vancouver Island AGM: Lunch Celebration
Paul Summerville • March 10, 2013

It was a tremendous pleasure to co-host a lunch with Mayo to honour the winner of the Alex Trawick Scholarship in Political Science, Tara Paterson, and Haley Kruse, the winner of Winston Churchill High School Award. Accompanying Tara was her thesis supervisor Dr. Annalee Lepp and representing the University of Victoria was our good friend Development Officer Barb Roberts. Also Joseph Turner who was runner-up in the High School Award joined the lunch.

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Still Fragile After All These Years (Speech to the Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute -- Toronto 22 January 2013)
Paul Summerville • January 18, 2013

It is an honour and privilege to be with you here today at the CPBI Ontario's 8th Annual Pension Investment Forecast breakfast.

Last year at this time I spoke to the theme of ‘living dangerously’ because of a number of structural problems in the major countries that make up the global economy.

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60 Million Canadians: The Case for a Really Big Canada
Paul Summerville • January 1, 2013

Times Colonist -- 60 Million Canadians: The Case for a Really Big Canada

A well-managed, steady population increase over the next 40 years can position Canada among the world’s most important countries. Throughout history, a growing population has been a key factor in the rise of economic and political power.
 

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Liberalism and Inequality
Paul Summerville • October 16, 2012

The radical politics that the Economist is looking for is called 'Liberalism'. Liberals must remain radically progressive, economically and environmentally responsible.

The twin virtues is what is required.

Economist -- True Progressivism
A new form of radical centrist politics is needed to tackle inequality without hurting economic growth.

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Twin Virtues: Inequality of Outcomes & Equality of Opportunity©

LimeSpot: Own the Experience.

Leveraging Social Networks for Profit.
 
Marrying the product portfolio of brand name firms with the personal profile information on Facebook.
 
The LimeSpot enabled revolutionary new sales channel.
 
Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
The new politics must marry the twin virtues of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
When too few get too much everybody ends up with less.
 
Can it be that striving for equality of opportunity however imperfect the process not only benefits the individual but also creates benefits for the society as a whole that are unintended but wonderful?
 
Economics must be a 'moral enterprise' as much as politics claims to be. Economic outcomes need to be framed in terms of right and wrong not just efficiency if only because these often align in surprising ways.
 
My vision of Canada is that any Canadian child from a family of limited circumstance can expect to have a chance at lifetime of unlimited opportunities.
 
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
 
Public policy should be designed to decrease inequality before the law and increase equality of opportunity.
 
Capitalism is not the problem; the problem is what we do with capitalism.
 
Content is always more difficult to argue than conspiracy.
 
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
 
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.
 
Political debate should not be fact free fighting.
 
Explanation lasts longer than eloquence.
 
Always favour empowerment over dependency.
 
The most enduring public figures are embraced for the causes they fought for and not the concept of themselves they hoped others would remember them by.
 
Find your voice and don't be the echo of somebody else.