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Dan Robles nails it again. 4 Square, redefining currency, revaluing knowledge. What's your personal economy going to look like in 10 years?

http://www.relationship-economy.com/?p=9557

Our national attention finally turned to our aging transportation infrastructure this past decade, although we've just begun to restructure and fund these priorities.

But we may be even father behind in communications technology, despite private and public efforts. Most people's eyes glaze over when you mention " broadband".

Here's a good article that presents a different meme, "soft infrastructure". While it will never overcome the focus on Dancing with the Stars, maybe this can better capture our group consciousness and attention, so we can really do something about it.

http://archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4404

Since the Second World War, American families have kept splitting and isolating. To offset this, a programmatic goal emerged from the Older Americans Act of 1973 to facilitate inter-generational interaction.

It didn't have a lot of success over the past 40 years. Then along came the tsunami of economic forces, and inter-generational households are back with a vengeance.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1528/multi-generational-family-household

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