{"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":"<p>Three years ago (maybe 4) I met <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ASmallWorld\">Erik Wachtmeister<\/a>, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asw.com\">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 &#8220;relevant, creative thinker&#8221;.\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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigthink.com\/\">BigThink<\/a>, the vlogging site for the &#8220;smart&#8221; (horribly designed btw).  Another one is Culture Hub, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanstalnaker.com\/\">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<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1083\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}