NIKOLAI DANALYLOV: Robert Steele is a very interesting person indeed: in the 1980s Robert was a clandestine CIA agent who believed not only in secrecy but also in Reagan’s right-wing politics and trickle down economics. Today Steele is the author of The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust. So how does a former spy and CIA intelligence professional, and Marine Corps infantry officer, become an honorary hacker, open source evangelist and the top Amazon reviewer devoted to non-fiction? Well, I invited Steele on my Singularity 1on1 podcast to ask him about that, as well as a few other things.
During our 82 min discussion with Robert Steele we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: whether humanity is making progress or not; failed states, regime change and ISIS; The Open-Source Everything Manifesto; smart cities and nature; shifting from secrecy to open source; producing more actionable intelligence than the entire US intelligence complex; collecting systems versus sharing and processing systems; capitalism, the singularity and true cost economics; industrialization, education and being a sheep; open source everything as a way to unleash our entrepreneurial capabilities; polarization and the preconditions for revolution; panarchy as extreme democracy and informed self-governance; ethics and integrity…
My three favorite quotes that I will take away from this conversation with Robert Steele are:
“The chasm, the gap between people with power and people with knowledge is now catastrophic.”
“Open source intelligence is the application of the craft of intelligence, legally and ethically, to create smart cities, smart nations, smart companies and smart citizens. It’s about not being a sheep.”
“Ethics is about the truth. And transparency. And trust. Ethics is how a civilization hands on the lessons of history, from one generation to the next. Ethics is the cultural code for getting the most out of any group and any situation with the least amount of damage and the least amount of waste. So ethics is an operating system.”
See Especially:
2007 Open Everything: We Won, Let’s Self-Govern
Open Source Everything Manifesto: Home Page
Robert Steele: Human Intelligence and Open Source Technologies in Singularity Weblog
The Future: Recent “Core” Work by Robert Steele
The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spy
See Also:
2012 Integrity, Reflexivity, & Open Everything – Presentation to the Washington Academy of Sciences
2009 Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else [Full Text Online for Google Translate]
BOOK (KINDLE): Intelligence for Earth: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
BOOK (KINDLE): The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust
INTERVIEW: Open Everything – with Robert David STEELE Vivas UPDATED to Add Parts V and VI
John Maguire: YouTube (6:30) Robert Steele, Open-Source, and You
Review: The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust
Robert Steele at LIBTECHNYC: The Open Source Everything Manifesto
ROOT: The Open Source Everything Convergence
Worth a Look: Convention of States
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Self-Determination & Secession