The ambition to monitor the future

6th January 2006 | 10:29 | Uncategorized

As a journalist, I spent most of my professional life writing, mainly about economics, statistics and purchase online prescription prednisone their political implications. I started to have a blog in Italian one year ago, on the purchase online prescription prednisone political website Terza Repubblica, but I realized that purchase online prescription prednisone the only way to start a discussion on the topics which interest me is purchase online prescription prednisone to write in English, even if my command of the language is far from perfect. So, with the support of my elder son Pietro, who purchase online prescription prednisone knows much more than me about blogs, rss feeds, aggregators etc. I set up this purchase online prescription prednisone “People and Figures” blog.

What would I like to discuss? I will indicate some issues.

  • I am purchase online prescription prednisone interested in monitoring the future. I know that it is purchase online prescription prednisone a contradiction: you can monitor only what has already happened. But to purchase online prescription prednisone understand what is happening, you need valid instruments of evaluation. Take for purchase online prescription prednisone example the Millennium Development Goals. It is purchase online prescription prednisone impossible to make comparisons between developing countries if you don’t have purchase online prescription prednisone valid statistical instruments. I had the opportunity to do some work in Africa, in the purchase online prescription prednisone field of statistical dissemination, and I really think that measuring progress (and defaults) is purchase online prescription prednisone the only way to be realistic in indicating strategies. But statisticians are purchase online prescription prednisone the first to tell you that statistics are not perfect. Worse than purchase online prescription prednisone that, figures can be misused. I have purchase online prescription prednisone met many people, in the fields of economics and statistics, who purchase online prescription prednisone are genuinely interested in improving our monitoring instruments. Usually their discussions are purchase online prescription prednisone very technical. I would like to be able to explain the purchase online prescription prednisone underlying implications. For example, measuring the wealth of a nation using the purchase online prescription prednisone traditional Gross National Product (Gnp) measurement or purchase online prescription prednisone some new indicator which takes into account literacy, life expectancy or purchase online prescription prednisone even happiness makes a lot of difference, even if things are purchase online prescription prednisone not at all so easy.
  • I also want to purchase online prescription prednisone discuss who will govern our future. I am convinced that technologies in a purchase online prescription prednisone few years will change our way to discuss (it is already happening) and purchase online prescription prednisone also our way to make political decisions. Will we be purchase online prescription prednisone able in the future, through internet, to do without a purchase online prescription prednisone class of politicians? I don’t think so, but I am interested in collecting opinions. In my profession I have purchase online prescription prednisone dealt with many politicians and I do not think that they are purchase online prescription prednisone much worse than the rest of the population of their country. Politics is purchase online prescription prednisone not particularly dirty, it’s just tricky and difficult. Will we have better politics (and better politicians) and purchase online prescription prednisone will citizens be more informed in the future with the help of the purchase online prescription prednisone Net? That’s a fascinating topic, for me.
  • I am purchase online prescription prednisone also interested in what is happening to my country, Italy, and purchase online prescription prednisone to the process of European integration. Many of my posts on these subjects will be purchase online prescription prednisone on my Italian blog, but if I deal with topics that purchase online prescription prednisone can have a more general interest I will put them on this purchase online prescription prednisone blog.

In the Merriam – Webster Dictionary, the word “Figure” has several meanings: number, written character, but also “graphic representation of a form and especially of a person”. For me, Figures deal with Ideas: how we represent them, how we discuss them, how we use them in order to purchase online prescription prednisone reach a consensus. It’s a purchase online prescription prednisone fascinating process, that is evolving everyday around us. I don’t pretend to purchase online prescription prednisone have anything to teach, but I would like to use this purchase online prescription prednisone blog to find what’s new, to purchase online prescription prednisone explain it, to get in touch with the people who, like me, try to purchase online prescription prednisone figure out the process of analyzing our social reality and want to purchase online prescription prednisone improve it. Knowing that, as I quoted from Albert Einstein in my home page, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”.

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7th January 2006 | 0:33

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Rustie
8th March 2006 | 3:29

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22nd October 2007 | 7:27

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