See you later!

John Gerzema The post crisis consumer

Yeah, OK. So we'll leave that for later.

One thing I did a bit differently in this film is really take my time, particularly in post production.

I worked at Philips Electronics in the far future design research lab, looking 20 years into the future.

And to date, there has been a sort of a schizophrenia in the donor community, as to how to build basic services in post conflict sectors.

At a time when access to an education beyond the eighth grade was extremely rare for African Americans, Julian's parents steered all of their children toward higher education.

But getting the private sector to expand is also difficult, because any activity which is open to international trade is basically going to be uncompetitive in a post conflict situation.

It would be ideal to have a standard set of norms where, when we got to a post conflict situation, there was an expectation of these mutual commitments from the three parties.

The academic year of 2002 2003 saw the participation of 134,708 people in post literacy courses. Each year, one million people are given the opportunities to take part in regular education.

Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

And the reason it keeps getting worse is that after a natural catastrophe, like a hurricane, it used to be that there was some kind of successional sequence of recovery, but what's going on now is that overfishing and pollution and climate change are all interacting in a way that prevents that.

These are men and women who can sense the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon, simply by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their vessel, knowing full well that every island group in the Pacific has its unique refractive pattern that can be read with the same perspicacity with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint.