The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NOTES:
Industrial era institutions have failed — need a new way of organizing.
Liquid demoracy, liquid feedback delegates trust.
Politics about decision-making but no software captures how decisions are made and carried forward.
AGENCY is the deinstituionalization (disintermediation) os as to move agency back to the people.
Institutions cannot currently interact with networks (e.g. “outreach” stinks)
GOAL is to replace institutions with P2P protocols.
Is information physical? And what does that mean?
Massimo Pigliucci
Rationally Speaking
Posted: Jan 24, 2014
 Massimo Pigliucci |
I’ve been reading for a while now Jim Baggott’s Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth, a fascinating tour through cutting edge theoretical physics, led by someone with a physics background and a healthy (I think) dose of skepticism about the latest declarations from string theorists and the like.
Wages For Facebook? Maybe It’s Not So Crazy
Posted: 20 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST
Swarm Economy – Zacqary Adam Green: On the one hand, the “Wages for Facebook” manifesto currently sweeping the web was never meant to be taken literally.
The idea that a free social networking service should pay its users for their “labor” is, at face value, ridiculous. But underneath the sensational language, there’s something to this notion of Facebook as an exploiter.
The premise of the boisterous, all-caps manifesto is laid out in its first paragraph:
Continue reading “Rickard Falkvinge: Facebook to Pay Users?”
From Peter Gruber:
Someone walked into my UCLA class a year ago and three hours later I realized that the business of media and the business of business itself was about to be turned inside out.
EXTRACT:
Mickey walks in and says that first and foremost a new mountain is on the horizon of not billions but trillions of connected devices. He plays a short film (Link: https://vimeo.com/7395079 ) and quizzes us about how big trillions even is–for those that aren’t math majors, a trillion seconds is over 30,000 years. He makes the point that this isn’t far off in the distant future but happening within the next five years. “For instance,” he says. “We just reached over four to six billion cell phones, effectively super computers in our pockets, but as early as 2010 the world had manufactured over ten billion microprocessors a year and now makes more transistors than grains of rice, cheaper.” He continues, ‘but a trillion smart devices isn’t even the biggest challenge, it’s that connectivity will act like a seed in that super saturated solution and suddenly we won’t see information any longer as being “in” our computers, but instead the sock will turn inside out and we’ll be living “in” the information.’
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A student asks, “So are your clothes all going to gang up and lobby for a change in detergent when they fade too fast, or don’t fade fast enough?” Yes. This is the first time in history where we’ll have a true feedback loop of not just the social media anecdotes that drive today’s recommendation engines, but facts.
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Phi Beta Iota: Missing from their concept — but very easy to integrate into their vision — is the foundation concept of true cost economics.
See Also:
An Introductory Guide to Content Curation
If you are interested in understanding what content curation is all about and where's its key value, you will find this reading material relevant to your learning goal.
In this reading collection (25 articles) you can learn how curation can be a fantastic instrument for learning, journalism and marketing, as it provides the means to create value, to find unique resources and to illustrate them, and in this process it showcases your competence and expertise on the matter (or the one of your company / organization).
If you are just starting out with content curation, this learning playlist will provide you with all the basic info you need to know to better understand this new activity and its relevance in our times.
“Flock” of Nano Satellites to Capture High-Res Views of Whole Earth
A private San Francisco start-up has launched the largest-ever ensemble of Earth-imaging satellites
Scientific American, 10 January 2014
The constellation of Earth-imaging satellites launched yesterday—28 individual sputniks, called “Doves,” each about the size of its namesake and weighing in at a svelte five kilograms—is on its way to the International Space Station. If all goes well, by the end of the month “Flock 1,” as the group is called, will distribute its nanosatellites in Earth orbit, the better to photograph the complete surface of the planet at high resolution 365 days a year. The satellites will provide near-continuous pictures of Earth’s surface at a resolution of three to five meters per pixel.
Planet Labs, the San Francisco start-up that built Flock 1, is one of a growing group of companies and governments launching very small satellites. As their cost and size have plummeted, partly in response to the availability of standardized off-the-shelf components, nanosatellites such as CubeSat, have opened up unprecedented opportunities in remote sensing. Unlike traditional Earth-imaging satellites, which cost millions to build and launch, each of Planet Labs’ diminutive sky cameras, which in its predeployed state resembles a child’s kaleidoscope, comes in at a fraction of that cost.
The future of search may not just be about Google and Bing. In the future of search, believe it or not, there are going to be a lot of people like you and me who will be providing much more helpful information guidance to specific requests than Google could ever do. I know this sounds probably unrealistic to you, but I think there are now many good indications that this likely going to happen much sooner than you expect. One of the key reasons why, human beings will start to reclaim this highly valuable search territory, is the fact that in the last few years we have slowly but deeply surrendered our ability to evaluate, decide and select what is “real” to Google's own algorithms, in ways that can only be detrimental to us.
Continue reading “Robin Good: Beyond Google Evil Lie Individual Human Curators”
