Phi Beta Iota: The German approach differs substantially from that of the US in that it avoids offensive capabilities and the expense of vaporware and sock puppets; it recognizes the importance of cyber-security across all normal elements of government, not just the “national security” zone; it places a very high priority on educated personnel (instead of shutting down USB ports); and it recognizes that cyber-security is impossible to achieve in the absence of trusted hardware and software (at the code level, which is a foreign language to the US cyber-mandarins).
Education, Intelligence, & Research: Academic Trends
03 Economy, 04 Education, 10 Security, 11 Society, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, GovernmentResearch and Markets: Global Trends 2010 Trend Report: Shapers & Influencers – Academic Institutions
May 2010 newly offered 18 March 2011
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global Trends 2010 Trend Report: Shapers & Influencers – Academic Institutions” report to their offering.
The world's next generation of young adults will not only be the largest ever, but also have received more schooling than any before.
The quantity, quality and focus of education will strongly influence future global development. There will be rising needs for trained teachers. Advances in communication and information technologies will quicken the dissemination of knowledge globally, giving rise to opportunities for cross-border education, as well as a greater need for lifelong learning to maintain a competitive edge in skills and knowledge.
A further influence on education will be the rise of collective versus individual intelligence as people worldwide seize the potential to tap into diverse sources of learning and knowledge simultaneously across the world, through both formal and informal networks. In this environment, the balance of influence of national curriculum boards and governments on education will decrease, while that of educational providers, parents, learners, learning channels and networks and global thinkers will increase.
Phi Beta Iota: Emphasis added. The trend not yet visible to others is the inevitable convergence of education, intelligence (decision-support) and research into one coherent openly-managed network that optimizes multinational (multilingual) multiagency multidisciplinary multidomain information-sharing and sense-making (M4IS2).
Denmark: One Hundred Mobile App Teach Kids Math
04 Education, 08 Wild Cards, Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Mobile
Danish students will in the future have access to a library of more than 100 apps for mobile phones, teaching them math in a more fun and engaging way. All mobile data traffic will be free, thanks to a partnership with the national mobile operators.
(PRWEB) March 18, 2011
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GRIFTOPIA Part II: The Next Mega-Meltdown
03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special InterestsMega-Banks and the Next Financial Crisis
Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer recognized the risks of subprime mortgages and bet against them. Now he warns that monetary policy could cripple American banks again.
James Freeman, The Wall Street Journal, 19 March 2011
Phi Beta Iota: Absolutely worth a full read. Here's the bottom line: US Government is simply not serious about regulation; the Federal Reserve in assuming faith in the dollar and printing money so fast inflation is inevitable and a total collapse of the dollar possible; the big banks are still over-leveraged; and a mega-meltdown is a virtual certainty. We assume the “elite” think they can stave off the melt-down until after November 2011 so as to have four more years of a compliant complacent government.
Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
F. William Engdahl: Three Books on Empire
5 Star, America (Founders, Current Situation), Atrocities & Genocide, Budget Process & Politics, Capitalism (Good & Bad), Congress (Failure, Reform), Corruption, Crime (Corporate), Crime (Government), Culture, Research, Democracy, Economics, Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback, Environment (Problems), Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Impeachment & Treason, Justice (Failure, Reform), Misinformation & Propaganda, Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Power (Pathologies & Utilization), Science & Politics of Science, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy, Threats (Emerging & Perennial), True Cost & Toxicity, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution, Voices Lost (Indigenous, Gender, Poor, Marginalized), Worth A Look
Available for Pre-Order. For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer space and cyberspace. Continuing ‘below the radar,' they created a global network of military bases and conflicts to advance the long-term goal of Full Spectrum Dominance. Methods included control of propaganda, use of NGOs for regime change, Color Revolutions to advance NATO eastwards, and a vast array of psychological and economic warfare techniques. They even used ‘save the gorilla' organizations in Africa to secretly run arms in to create wars for raw materials. It was all part of a Revolution in Military Affairs, as they termed it. The events of September 11, 2001 would allow an American President to declare a worldwide War on Terror, on an enemy who was everywhere, and nowhere. 9/11 justified the Patriot Act, the very act that destroyed Americans' Constitutional freedoms in the name of security. This book gives a disturbing look at the strategy of Full Spectrum Dominance, at what is behind a strategy that could lead us into a horrific nuclear war in the very near future, and at the very least, to a world at continuous war.
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Wisdom University on Japan’s Twin Calamities
03 Environmental Degradation, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Wisdom Community Reflections IN THE AFTERMATH OF JAPAN'S TSUNAMI
The Perfect Eco-Technical Storm Jim Garrison, President
In the News: Post-Tsunami Whirlpool Research Apela Colorado, Faculty
Pointing to the Larger Story of Earth Wisdom Will Taegel and Judith Yost, Faculty
From Water to Fire: An Astrological Perspective Lynn Bell, Faculty
Reference: Evolutionary Psychology
Book Lists, Cultural IntelligencePhi Beta Iota: Coincident with the emergence of the Collective Intelligence and Open Everything movements, and despite the enormous fragmentation of human knowledge by an academy that has lost sight of the importance of multi-disciplinary or “holistic” human intelligence, the field of Evolutionary Psychology is maturing rapidly while also branching to connect to Neuroscience. On the fringe, Cyber-Idiocy is a growth industry, as the mandarins of the past strive to achieve “Full-Spectrum Dominance” not realizing that all they are doing is accelerating push-back from an increasingly self-aware humanity that cannot be repressed.
The below list is a useful start.
