What's your idea?

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Recently on LinkedIn I came across this article and thought of my blog. Maybe its just an ideal but this is what I wish for Freeport ... to be able to come alive without Government or the Grand Bahama Port Authority, but just people/residents who are there with ideas and take on the united project of “Rediscovering Freeport”.
The article said: "On January 8, 1966, the New Yorker profiled Buckminster Fuller for the first time. During a trip to a Maine island with the journalist Calvin Tomkins, Fuller said something tremendously prescient: -Fuller proposed a worldwide technological revolution...[that] would take place quite independently of politics or ideology; it would be carried out by what he calls "comprehensive designers" who would coordinate resources and technology on a world scale for the benefit of all mankind, and would constantly anticipate future needs while they found ever-better ways of providing more and more from less and less.”

 Just as technology that was once commissioned by governments was taken over by the every day civilians ... kids in basements.

 So far we seem to have a plethora hair sellers who are selling their wares online but Im sure there are dreams being withheld for other reasons.

 Always remember, if the problem is money .... Microsoft develoeprs didnt start with the money, nor did Mark Zuckerberg or the did Steve Jobs. With a well formed idea presented to the right persons at the right time and here we now have a world that people can hardly imagine themselves without.

 In your bank of ideas, what do you see for Freeport, Grand Bahama?

 Remember.... Freeport itself was once just an idea.


(Photos again from Oldbahamas.com. Don’t forget to check them out. Also if you are interested in purchasing, leasing or renting real estate in Freeport/Grand Bahama call me at 727 6909.)

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