1993 On Defense & Intelligence–The Grand Vision
About the Idea, Articles & Chapters, Briefings & Lectures
In 1993 the Prime Minister of France was furious with his intelligence community. His direct aide for intelligence was Col Louis Dilais, a former chief of the Americas branch in French military intelligence. He put Open Source Intelligence on the agenda for a special conference in the French Senate, with the other major speakers being Admiral Lacoste and General Heinrich.
Below is an English version of the presentation but as adapted for OSS 1993.
1993 Alvin Toffler, “The Future of the Spy” in War & Anti-War
About the Idea
PDF (17 Pages): 1993 Toffler Chapter The Future of the Spy
Alvin Toffler was stuggling with a chapter tentative focused on the future of knowledge, when TASC executives sent him a copy of the Proceedings from OSS 1992. He read-in, interviewed Robert Steele by telephone, and this chapter was born, built around five pages sub-titled “The Rival Store.”
Many years later, reading about the throw-away camara in a book about innovation, the similarity between the throw-away camara, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and the reactions of the high-end camara shops (the secret technical collection world) are so similar as to be worthy of note.
The high-end camara shops refused to sell the throw-away camara. It went to grocery stores instead, and promptly captured the 90% of the market that could not afford high-end camaras.
Similiarly, OSINT has “captured” 90 countries, most of which do not have the money for expensive technical collection systems and the processing capacity that is also needed. And so it came to pass…..
1993 From Schoolhouse to White House
About the Idea, Articles & Chapters
1993 ACCESS: The Theory and Practice of Intelligence in the Age of Information
Articles & Chapters
PDF: 1993 Access Theory and Practice Original Best
This document was originally funded by a small French firm based in McLean, and ultimately led to an invitation to address a national conference in the French Senate. Two individuals in France made an impression during a trip to the 1993 information industry conference there:
Henry Stiller, whose booth had a caption that begins this paper, roughly translated, “95% of the information that an enterprise needs can be acquired by honorable means.”
The other person, the head of the French steel association, inspired our realization that one must case a wide net when he spoke of the millions that the French steel industry spent to study competing steel industries around the world, only to completely miss the plastics industry which came in and quickly took away the very lucrative market for automotive underbody parts.
1993: God, Man, & Information – Comments to Interval In-House (Full Text Online)
Briefings & Lectures“GOD, MAN, & INFORMATION:
COMMENTS TO INTERVAL IN-HOUSE”
Tuesday, 9 March 1993
Robert David Steele
Executive Summary
Electromagnetic pollution–in the form of both increased levels of uncontrolled and misunderstood levels of emission, and in the form of broader and more intense bandwidth exploitation–constitutes the technical terror of the 21st century.[1]
There is another terror facing us in that era as well, and it is the terror of human isolation, of human irrelevance, of human disorientation, of human surrender to the madness of rationality run amok.
In essence, we face the prospects of technical and biological burn-out in the cultural equivalent of the Ice Age. Has man lost the ability to create civilization? It is in this context that we must consider the role of INTERVAL and the high priests of INTERVAL….hence the title of my rant, “God, Man, and Information: Comments to INTERVAL In-House”.
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1993 GOD, MAN, & INFORMATION: COMMENTS TO INTERVAL IN-HOUSE”
Briefings & Lectures
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