{"id":1083,"date":"2008-01-09T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/a-smart-world.html"},"modified":"2008-01-09T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:18:44","slug":"a-smart-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"A Smart World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years ago (maybe 4) I met Erik Wachtmeister<\/a>, the founder of A Small World<\/a> and heard about his idea to start the social site for the jet set. I liked it, I figured that great parties would come out of it but I immediately thought that something more interesting that getting jet setters in a web site would to get the smartest people in the world in a web site. And together with my friends Andrew McLaughlin (Chief Policy Officer of Google) and Joshua Ramo of Kissinger Associates we thought of starting A Smart World.\u00a0 The concept was a social site for intellectuals, scientists, writers, professors or anyone who his peers would consider a “relevant, creative thinker”.\u00a0 But the idea never got off the ground as we were all very busy with our own jobs and projects. But recently I came across examples of A Smart World in different formats. One is BigThink<\/a>, the vlogging site for the “smart” (horribly designed btw). Another one is Culture Hub, Stan Stalnaker\u00b4s<\/a> project (I ran into Stan at a party in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay this week).\u00a0 Yet nobody seems to get it totally right.<\/p>\n

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Three years ago (maybe 4) I met Erik Wachtmeister, the founder of A Small World and heard about his idea to start the social site for the jet set. I liked it, I figured that great parties would come out of it but I immediately thought that something more interesting that getting jet setters in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t