{"id":2606,"date":"2011-09-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fpisani.wpengine.com\/winch-5-1\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T07:00:00","slug":"winch-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francispisani.net\/en\/winch-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Winch 5 – Francis Pisani"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m launching this new blog from Mexico, the first step in a series of trips born from a desire to understand the state of innovation and social media in the five corners of the world. I\u2019m convinced that the majority of life-changing technologies will come soon from places other than Silicon Valley. I lived in the valley area for 15 years, trying to share what I learned there on my blog,\u00a0Transnets<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which still exists and is periodically updated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the five corners of the globe.<\/strong>\u201d This is first of all a nod to the Mayas, who described five cardinal points, the fifth being the vertical axis which passed through the Earth, linking the infra-worlds to the heavens \u2013 3D imagery before 3D. It\u2019s also a professed desire to go to as many cities, as many continents, as possible. For this project that means more than thirty cities and five continents.<\/p>\n

Here is a provisional list: Mexico, Casablanca, Dakar, Abidjan, Accra, Nairobi, Cairo, Tunis, Bologna, Belgrade, Istanbul, Doha, Tehran, Dubai, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Sydney, Djakarta, Singapore, Bangalore, Mumbai, Johannesburg, Cologne, Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, and San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n