George Friedman writes:  Scotland was buried in Britain for centuries and has resurrected itself. This raises the question of how confident any of us can be that national claims buried for only decades are settled. I have no idea how the Scottish will vote. What strikes me as overwhelmingly important is that the future of Britain is now on the table, and there is a serious possibility that it will cease to be in the way it was. Nationalism has a tendency to move to its logical conclusion, so I put little stock in the moderate assurances of the Scottish nationalists. Nor do I find the arguments against secession based on tax receipts or banks’ movements compelling. For centuries, nationalism has trumped economic issues. The model of economic man may be an ideal to some, but it is empirically false. People are interested in economic well-being, but not at the exclusion of all else. In this case, it does not clearly outweigh the right of the Scottish nation to national-self determination.   Scottish Independence

With nearly 16 million programmers in the world, at 10 to 15 percent women, there are more than two million female programmers — but we never see them. Technical women remain largely invisible and behind the scenes despite important and often elite contributions.

In tech, we are standing on the shoulders of giants — men and women who have innovated and collaborated to bring us to where we are today. So many entrepreneurs, computer scientists, heroes, and creators have come before us — and yet we are critically challenged by the lack of visibility innovators of those days.

In the Hollywood film Jobs, all of the men on the core Macintosh team are introduced and have speaking roles, but we don’t meet Joanna Hoffman or Susan Kare, though both were a core part of the original Macintosh product development team.

The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (GDI), through studies done with the USC Annenberg School, found a three to one ratio of male to female characters in children’s TV, with 80 percent of the jobs held by characters in kids TV and films being held by male characters. We need to help Hollywood and other media creation hubs fix this damaging bug. Armed with GDI research and the need to shift, we and many others have begun helping with outreach work to top media partners.

We have a tremendous opportunity to help change the narrative and our actions — all of us, women and men working alongside one another, have an important role to play here.

With nearly 16 million programmers in the world, at 10 to 15 percent women, there are more than two million female programmers — but we never see them. Technical women remain largely invisible and behind the scenes despite important and often elite contributions.

Conservative columnists suggest that it is unfair to other citizens of the UK who can’t vote on an issue that impacts them.  Others are arguing that there are benefits to separation for workers.  They talk about civic nationalistm – the idea that all citizens should be engaged in the process of deciding where society is headed, not just getting their hands on the tiller once every four or five years. It utilises the n-word because democracy on a national level offers the best opportunity for fundamental change.

The vote appears to be close, but insiders think there will be no split at this time.

The incoming foreign policy chief of the European Council has appointed Stephano Manservisi to head her private offfice.  Stephano Manservisi    Manservisi was the EU’s Ambassadr to Turkey.  Does this signal a new effort to bring Turkey into the EU?