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Bruce Sterling at SXSW 2011–Brilliance on Twitter

11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Real Time
Bruce Sterling

The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW is the premier destination for discovery.

Phi Beta Iota: Jon Lebkowsky, himself a hero of the Hacker Revolution, has done something cool here.

  • 01 At Southby, science fiction authors talk like they know what’s going on.
  • 02 “There are people here who are younger than the event.”
  • 03 All the political language has been rendered toxic.
  • 04 Polarizing brand management. Culture wars. Politics from POV of a design critic.
  • 05 As a design critic, I criticize stuff that doesn’t exist yet.
  • 06 Bruce Sterling shows Worldchanging 2.0 (the book) at sxsw.
  • 07 Passionate virtuosity…. the ideas in Worldchanging 2.0 are passionate but lack virtuosity.
  • 08 We’ve got a series of problems that are poorly recognized.
  • 09 In our society, we don’t have any passionate virtuosity.Our political situation is the opposite, disgusted incompetence.

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Fight Global Warming: Free Fiber to the Home….

11 Society, Autonomous Internet, Earth Intelligence, InfoOps (IO)

Executive Summary

This blog is about a novel new business model for delivering Fiber to the Home. A proposed pilot deployment is underway in Ottawa Canada.

See slideshow with  detailed business plan.

Background

One of , if not, the greatest threats to our future society and economy is global warming. Governments around the world are wrestling with the challenge of how to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The current preferred approaches are to impose “carbon” taxes and/or implement various forms of cap and trade systems. However another approach to help reduce carbon emission is to “reward” those who reduce their carbon footprint rather than imposing draconian taxes or dubious cap and trade systems. Consumers will generally respond more positively to voluntary reward mechanisms as opposed to mandatory solutions imposed by government or other authorities. For more details on carbon rewards see http://green-broadband.blogspot.com/

This paper discusses one possible reward system where consumers are provided with free true high speed Internet if they reduce their overall energy consumption. Not only does the consumer benefit, but this business model also provides new revenue opportunities for network operators and builders.

Read more….

Tip of the Hat to Patrick Anderson at the Freedom Box discussion and the Building a Decentralized and Distributed Internet Google Groups

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Afghanistan Elective War: A Study of Citizen Minds

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence
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65% of Americans Believe Afghan War Not Worth Fighting

Tuesday, 15 Mar 2011 01:41 PM

By Henry J. Reske

Almost 65 percent of Americans now believe that the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting. The number is up 20 points from results in 2009 when 44 percent did not think the war worth fighting, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Phi Beta Iota: Afghanistan, like Iraq, is an elective war founded on hundreds of lies to the public by a pair of Administrations who have substituted ideology for intelligence and profiteering for public service.  The seismic change occurring today is centered on what can the public know, when.  Public intelligence in the public interest is destined to kick in sooner with each passing year.  One day, elective wars will be impossible.

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Google Muffs the Bunny: Search 2.0 Emergent

Commercial Intelligence, IO Sense-Making
Missing Information

O'Brien: Search undergoing biggest disruption since the dawn of Google

Phi Beta Iota: From day one we have been expressing concern over Google placing excessive emphasis on math hacks and ignoring both humanity and the needs of humanity.  It is now clear to the broader public, as it has been clear to us from the very beginning, that Google has been mis-directed.

See Also:

Reference: Strategic Analytic Model for Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Reference: Transparency Killer App Plus “Open Everything” RECAP (Back to 01/2007)

Reference: Internet Governance

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Poverty & Nuclear Power: Pros and Cons

05 Energy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, Key Players

Poverty to Dictate Future Power Play

Geoffrey T. Smith, Wall Street Journal

March 17, 2011

Those who believe that economics, rather than individuals or events, is the driving force behind history are going to have their faith sorely tested in the coming weeks.

Emotion and experience say the revival of nuclear power can not and should not continue after the events at Fukushima. Economics, and the political imperatives that it creates, say it is inevitable.

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Hacker Group Anonymous Civil Disobedience

Commerce, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, InfoOps (IO), Law Enforcement

Christina Tobin

Hacker Group Anonymous Brings Peaceful Revolution To America: Will Engage In Civil Disobedience Until Bernanke Steps Down

The world's most (in)famous hacker group – Anonymous – known for effectively shutting down their hacking nemesis security firm (with clients such as Morgan Stanley and, unfortunately for them, Bank of America)- HBGary, advocating the cause of Wikileaks, and the threat made by one of its members that evidence of fraud by Bank of America will be released on Monday, has just launched communication #1 in its Operation “Empire State Rebellion.” The goal – engage in “a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience” until Ben Bernanke steps down and the “Primary Dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy effective immediately.”

Read the manifesto….

Phi Beta Iota:  Bernanke, like Obama, is a front.  As long as Goldman Sachs occupies the Secretary of the Treasury and the National Security Advisor positions, as long as no one goes to jail starting with Rubin, Summers, and Gaither, one can salute their intentions, but question their intelligence (as in decision support).  They can start by reading Matt Taibbi's Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.

See Also:

Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? + US Fraud RECAP