A good friend recently turned me on to The Long Now Foundation which hopes to provide a counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. It is offering an upcoming (free!!) seminar by Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley titled, “China Thinks Long-Term, But Can It Re-Learn To Act Long-Term?” You may find this seminar of interest. Once it is loaded into a podcast, I will definitely watch it.

Global Business Network. You may find the following article posted there titled, “Four Futures for China Inc.,” of interest. It addresses the question of whether China’s economic and political power will continue to expand dramatically or will it slow in the decade ahead? GBN’s Jesse Goldhammer and Doug Randall respond in this Business 2.0 article with four possible interesting scenarios.