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Lawrence Mark “Larry” Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he has been interested in philosophy. Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. Most of his philosophical work has focused on epistemology, the theory of knowledge.

Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, and has since been critical of the project. He states that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility due to, among other things, a lack of respect for expertise.

How we can organize the news (short version)

How we can organize the news (long version)

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2014/12/022014/12/02

Chris Wagner: Soul Engineering Primer

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

Soul Engineering Primer

Connecting Artificial Intelligence, Education, Linguistics, Psychology, Quality Control, Systems Engineering, and Spiritual Transformation

PDF (49 Pages):SoulEngineeringPrimer

2014/12/022014/12/02

Chris Wagner: Future Directions Early Thoughts

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Future Directions and Open Everything (draft)

Micro and Macro

Human culture is a reflection of the human body

A set of senses and muscles (culturally so many sensors and effectors )
Nourishment and waste in opposite directions in the bloodstream (freeways)
A brain of many cells connected via a nervous system (a culture of many brains connected via the internet)
A body has a micro-biome, survival by interaction with other life (a culture has a biosphere)
Ethics – support all parts of the body (culturally support all people)
Recursion at multiple levels

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2014/12/01

Patrick Meier: Use of Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters

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Using Social Media to Anticipate Human Mobility and Resilience During Disasters

The analysis of cell phone data can already be used to predict mobility patterns after major natural disasters. Now, a new peer-reviewed scientific study suggests that travel patterns may also be predictable using tweets generated following large disasters. In “Quantifying Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Hurricane Sandy,” co-authors Qi Wang and John Taylor analyze some 700,000 geo-tagged tweets posted by ~53,000 individuals as they moved around over the course of 12 days. Results of the analysis confirm that “Sandy did impact the mobility patterns of individuals in New York City,” but this “perturbation was surprisingly brief and the mobility patterns encouragingly resilient. This resilience occurred even in the large-scale absence of mobility infrastructure.”

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2014/12/01

SchwartzReport: Time Cloak Encrypts Information

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Here is the latest on Electronic Communications trend, and it is pretty magical.

Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light

A “time cloak” that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended recipient.

2014/11/24

Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing and Humanitarian Action: Analysis of the Literature

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Crowdsourcing and Humanitarian Action: Analysis of the Literature

Raphael Hörler from Zurich’s ETH University has just completed his thesis on the role of crowdsourcing in humanitarian action. His valuable research offers one of the most up-to-date and comprehensive reviews of the principal players and humanitarian technologies in action today. In short, I highly recommend this important resource. Raphael’s full thesis is available here (PDF).

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2014/11/232014/11/25

Robert Steele: Reflections on the Next Data Revolution

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

I was glad to respond to an invitation to write “Beyond Data Monitoring,” a Background Paper for the UN International Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution, co-chaired by Robin Li of Baidu, which is good, with Open Source represented by Tim “algorithms rule” O'Reilly, which is bad. Although the paper gained no traction with the intended recipients, it was sent by other means to the special assistant to the Secretary-General, and has taken on a life of its own elsewhere. Building on the earlier Earth Intelligence Network concepts, and together with my forthcoming article on Applied Collective Intelligence (Spanda Journal, December 2014), this paper is the summary of my old thinking.

Today I begin new thinking, with a tip of the hat to Daniel Mezick among others — I feel blessed to have connected with so many brilliant information technologists over the years, including hackers around the world and with Stephen E. Arnold, CEO of Arnold IT, always in the forefront as my most trusted observer of the hollowness of industrial-era IT. Below is my emergent vision challenge for the future of public free open information sharing and sense-making. I am seeking contributing thoughts that will be acknowledged here as this develops.

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