The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Enterprise Search Lags Behind: Actionable Interfaces, Not Lists, Needed
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A Google results list with one ad, two Wikipedia item, pictures, and redundant dictionary links. Try this query “IBM Mainframe.” Not too helpful unless one is looking for information to use in a high school research paper.
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6 Threats, 6 Changes, & A Brave New World: Intel Chief Vickers
WASHINGTON: There’s no one thing that keeps the Pentagon’s chief of intelligence up at night. There’s half-a-dozen things — terrorism, cybersecurity, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China — but Mike Vickers has a six-point plan to counter them.
The so-called “Internet of things” seems to mean a lot of things. But for the government, which executes the orders of the 1% of the 1%, it's primary value is to spy:
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Utility 3.0: How to Democratize Energy in the U.S.
As the U.S. turns to renewable energy, the question remains: who will benefit?
Among those concerned with the United States' energy future—including, increasingly, the utility companies themselves—the business model known as “Utility 2.0” appears as a beacon of hope. Utility 2.0 addresses the concerns of both energy watchdogs and conventional electricity utilities by offering the latter financial incentives to adopt greener, more flexible infrastructure. But while this new paradigm presents solutions to many of the problems associated with centralized, fossil fuel-reliant power grids, some argue that it does not go far enough.
Continue reading “Jean Lievins: Utility 3.0: How to Democratize Energy in the U.S.”
Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with Anthropologist Jack Hunter. During the interview Hunter hypothesizes that cross-cultural ritual may help bolster parapsychological effects in a lab-setting:
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IT Concerns in 2015: Digital Transformation Leads the List
The article titled Boardroom Priorities in 2015: Can IT Deliver on ZDNet discusses a recent survey of 200 CXOs on boardroom concerns for 2015 from Constellation Research. Digital transformation was at the top of many lists, and the article posits that there is a fear among many companies that a “Digital Darwinism” will take down corporations that have not invested in digital strategies. The article states,
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