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Ron Powell with Michael Saylor: The Impact of the Mobile Wave

Advanced Cyber/IO, Knowledge
Michael Saylor

The Impact of the Mobile Wave: A Spotlight Q&A with Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy

This BeyeNETWORK Spotlight features Ron Powell's interview with Michael Saylor, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of MicroStrategy, and author of the recently released book, The Mobile Wave. Ron and Michael discuss the changes we will experience – and benefit from – as the mobile wave advances throughout the world.

BeyeNETWORK Spotlights focus on news, events and products in the business intelligence ecosystem that are poised to have a significant impact on the industry as a whole; on the enterprises that rely on business intelligence, analytics, performance management, data warehousing and/or data governance products to understand and act on the vital information that can be gleaned from their data; or on the providers of these mission-critical products.

Presented as Q&A-style articles, these interviews conducted by the BeyeNETWORK present the behind-the-scene view that you won’t read in press releases.

Michael, congratulations on your new book The Mobile Wave. Why did you feel it was time to write this book?

Michael Saylor: Ron, I think every ten years or so there's something really exciting in the information technology business. We’ve had the mainframe wave, the mini-computer wave, the personal computer (PC) wave, and then the Internet wave. I thought about writing a book around the Internet wave, but I was busy taking my company public and I didn't really have the time.

Now, along comes the mobile wave. It’s the fifth wave, I think, of computing. I feel this is my chance to actually put down in book form my thoughts about the history of science and how things all relate to this current mobile wave, and I may not get another chance in my lifetime. It's my first book, and I'm excited about it.

For readers of The Mobile Wave, what is the most surprising thing they will learn?

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Stephen E. Arnold: Free Online 30 Days Only – The New Landscape of Search

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold

The New Landscape of Search

Your free copy of “The New Landscape of Search” can be downloaded from: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?c7et93wwl32cnhd

The document will be available for the next 30 days [from 1 July]

Phi Beta Iota:  150 pages.  Stephen E. Arnold remains light years ahead of government and corporate observers.  We continue to recommend The Google Trilogy, a set of deeply invasive works most governments and corporations have yet to grasp.

See Also:

Stephen E. Arnold at Phi Beta Iota

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Stephen E. Arnold

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Reference: Open-Ended Semiosis – Symbiotic Intelligence

Advanced Cyber/IO

Group T-3 Fluid Dynamics• Theoretical Division
Los Alamos National Laboraory • MS B216 Los Alamos NM 87545
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These pages contain information from Los Alamos reports: LA-UR 97-1200, 98-489, 98-2227, 98-1150, 98-2549The Symbiotic Intelligence Project
Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed Networks Driven by Human Interaction

From New Frontiers in Collective Problem Solving, by N. Johnson, S. Rasmussen, M. Kantor;
LA UR-98-1150 Or see an alternative, more detailed summary

The goal is to analyze and facilitate how people, in the process of accessing and using information on networks, create new knowledge without premeditation. We argue that the symbiotic combination of humans and smart networks will result in a previously unrealized capability of collective problem identification and solution. This capability is based on the pre-existing self-organizing dynamics of social evolution. This symbiotic intelligence will greatly increase the success of organizations in achieving their goals, better utilizing their resources and preparing for the future. For the human society as a whole, this new resource will improve our quality of life and vitality as a species.

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Theophillis Goodyear: Edgar Morin as “Root” for Sy-Bernetics

Advanced Cyber/IO, Knowledge
Theophillis Goodyear
Every avenue of vital feedback is jammed, mostly by mega media corporations, but also by other social institutions, like collectives of public “servants.” The result is like the original “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Paralysis. Nothing moves.

In pursuing various lines of inquiry, I keep coming up with one name: Edgar Morin.  He was born in 1921. That means he's 91.  He's one of the French social philosophers who drifted away from Marxism.

Wikipedia/Edgar Morin

One of his most important works is available in English, although very expensive.

Method: Towards a Study of Humankind, Vol. 1: The Nature of Nature

This is the first of several volumes exposing Edgar Morin's general systems view on life and society. The present volume maintains that the organization of all life and society necessitates the simultaneous interplay of order and disorder. All systems, physical, biological, social, political and informational, incessantly reshape part and whole through feedback, thereby generating increasingly complex systems. For continued evolution, these simultaneously complementary, concurrent, and antagonistic systems require a priority of love over truth, of subject over object, of Sy-bernetics over cybernetics.

He was a founding member of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium also known as the  Collegium International that published the Declaration of Interdependence in 2005.  This is not to be confused with a document by the same name published in 1945 by Will Durant, among others.

See Also:

Edgar Morin: A Partial Introduction, by Alfonso Montuori —- California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
Apparently Montuori is at least something of an expert on Morin. Here's a webpage about Montuoi
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Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping End of Sudan’s Dictatorship?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Government, Knowledge, Media
Patrick Meier

Crisis Mapping the End of Sudan’s Dictatorship?

Anyone following the twitter hashtag #SudanRevolts in recent days must be stunned by the shocking lack of coverage in the mainstream media. The protests have been escalating since June 17 when female students at the University of Khartoum began demonstrating against the regime's austerity measures, which are increasing the prices of basic commodities and removing fuel subsidies. The dissent has quickly spread to other universities and communities.

There's no doubt that Sudan's dictator is in trouble. He faces international economic sanctions and a mounting US$2.5 billion budget deficit following the secession of South Sudan last year. What's more, he is also “fighting expensive, devastating, and unpopular wars in Darfur (in the west), Blue Nile, Southern Kordofan, and the Nuba Mountains (on the border with South Sudan)” (UN Dispatch). So what next?

Enter Sudan Change Now, a Sudanese political movement with a clear mandate: peaceful but total democratic change. They seek to “defeat the present power of darkness using all necessary tools of peace resistance to achieve political stability and social peace.” The movement is thus “working on creating a common front that incorporates all victims of the current regime to ensure a unified and effective course of action to overthrow it.”

According to GlobalVoices, “The Sudanese online community believe that media coverage was an integral part of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, and are therefore demanding the same for Sudan.” The political movement Sudan Change Now is thus turning to crisis mapping to cast more light on the civil resistance efforts in the Sudan:

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Howard Rheingold: Introduction to No Limits Mind Mapping

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence
Howard Rheingold

TheBrain :: Introduction to No Limits Mind Mapping

I've used The Brain myself and have played a number of these webinars. It takes some commitment, but it's really an infotention tool far more than just a mind-mapping tool.  –Howard

“Your Brain lets you make unlimited connections and instantly find any idea or file. This seminar will cover how to start, grow and manage a single Brain on every aspect of your life.”

Your Brain lets you make unlimited connections and instantly find any idea or file. This seminar will cover how to start, grow and manage a single Brain on every aspect of your life.

Visit www.thebrain.com for more information on TheBrain. TheBrain is knowledge management software for thinkers!

 

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Chuck Spinney: Is Climate Science Like the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (III)?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Communities of Practice, Corruption, Earth Intelligence
Chuck Spinney
As I have indicated in earlier blasters, I find the parallels between the political forces corrupting defense “science” and climate “science” to be stunning (e.g., directly here or more subtly here).
Attached is a very thoughtful piece by the distinguished Australian scientist Garth Paltridge.  His subject is the psychological state of play in the politicization of climate science, and without saying so, he reinforces the parallels.  Note the author's reference to Eisenhower's farewell address toward the end of the essay.  Most people remember Eisenhower's phrase for its snappy reference to the military-industrial complex. Ike should have included Congress, but deliberately chose not to and removed the reference to Congress from an early draft, in effect, placing sensibility before common sense.  If you read the farewell address carefully (here), you will see that Eisenhower's warning was really a more nuanced one about public policy becoming prisoner to the special interests feeding off uncontrollable cash cows those interests helped to create — a point more in tune with the quote highlighted by Paltridge.
Readers should note I reformatted Paltridge's essay to highlight what I think are important points, but did not change any words or the order of those words.  A link is provided to the original form, should you prefer it.
Chuck Spinney
                                                                       San Remo, Italy
The Australian Financial Review,
22 JUN 2012 00:06:00 | UPDATED: 22 JUN 2012 10:46:02
GARTH PALTRIDGE

Garth Paltridge is an emeritus professor with the University of Tasmania, a visiting fellow at the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He is the author of The Climate Caper: facts and fallacies of global warming, Connor Court, 2009. He was a chief research scientist with the CSIRO division of atmospheric research.

The broad theory of man-made global warming is acceptable in the purely qualitative sense.

EXTRACT:

The bottom line of all this is that deliberate understatement of the uncertainty of the science allows overstatement of the climate change problem. [CS note: in the Pentagon, downplaying the future consequences of current decisions and “threat inflation” are part of what is the known as the  “front loading” power game, defined here.]

Phi Beta Iota:  Within Climate Change, Carbon is less important than sulpher or mercury, but favored by Maurice Strong and Al Gore as a global financial derivatives scam.  Climate Change is at best 10% of Environmental Degradation, high-level threat to humanity #3, after #1 Poverty and #2 Infectious Disease.  Governments have become so corrupt — less the Nordics, Netherlands, and Singapore, with Brazil, China, India, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela having their own forms of making do — that only hybrid panarchy (M4IS2) rooted in the craft of (public) intelligence will scale to meet all these challenges.  Governments–as a general statement–do not represent their publics but have instead sold out to the wealthy–the public servants having failed to hold the political class accountable with intelligence and integrity.  As David Weinberger notes so ably, experts are not really expert, only all of us together will do.  Organized people armed with organized knowledge can beat organized wealth and their corrupt political servants (self-made servants we might add — the wealthy did not bribe the politicals– the politicals fell from grace and shake down the wealthy).

See Also:

2012 PREPRINT AS SUBMITTED: The Craft of Intelligence

A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility–Report of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change

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

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

We the People Reform Coalition

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