Videos: Secret Life of Cell Phones, Paper, and Beef
01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation, 04 Education, 05 Energy, 12 Water, True Cost, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, Waste (materials, food, etc)Mobile Apps Strive to Translate Real-Time Speech
Civil Society, Commerce, Mobile, Technologies, Videos/Movies/DocumentariesA new feature built into Google Translate for Android, Conversation Mode is a little rough around the edges, but it's basically your own personal Babel Fish. It does what Wordlens does but in real-time speech, translating English and Spanish.
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Also see: http://mashable.com/2010/09/13/translation-mobile-apps/
Phi Beta Iota: A new book is about to come out on Google's last few years' investment in R&D. Rumor has it–we've heard the book summarized but not read the book itself–they have very little to show for the money in comparison with Chinese and other options that are emerging. One down, 182 to go…
Gerald Celente: Forecasting Revolution in 2011
01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 08 Wild Cards, Augmented Reality, Collective Intelligence, Computer/online security, Corporations, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cyberscams, malware, spam, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Technologies, Videos/Movies/DocumentariesWhen reform becomes impossible, revolution becomes inevitable.
Phi Beta Iota: This guy is amazing. Visit his website.
Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today
Gerald Celente: Forecasted Panic in Dec 2007; EIN PDB forecasted crash in Oct 2007
Gerald Celente: Forecasted Panic in Dec 2007; EIN PDB forecasted crash in Oct 2007
03 Economy, Corruption, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Videos/Movies/DocumentariesComment: In October 2007, Earth Intelligence Network's Public Daily Brief (PDB) stated “Economy: Nothing significant, US continues to be bankrupt. Real estate crash in January 2009.” See it for yourself (pdf)
Foresight Engine & Breakthroughs to Cures
07 Health, Academia, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Government, Videos/Movies/Documentaries
Watch the intro video on the idea of imagining that you, as president, have instigated an initiative in 2020 to collect ideas and participation from throughout the world to help cure an incurable disease 100 million Americans are infected with http://foresight.breakthroughstocures.org
Also see: http://blog.breakthroughstocures.org
Journal: Eradicating Poverty One Micro-Job at a Time
Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Geospatial, Historic Contributions, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), International Aid, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Key Players, Maps, Methods & Process, microfinancing, Open Government, Policies, Policy, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Reform, Research resources, Strategy, Technologies, Threats, Tools, Videos/Movies/Documentaries
Working for change: Samasource redefines international aid
December 10, 2010
On Need to Know, we do a lot of reporting about the world’s problems. But we’re premiering a new series about people coming up with creative solutions — it’s called “Agents of Change.”
Click on title to read short intro and option to view video….
9 minutes — summary
Social entrepreneur challenging conventional wisdom
Samasource–microwork (small digital tasks that can be done on an inexpensive computers).
Building 21st Century assembly line that can break down massive tasks (e.g. updating addresses for Google maps, or translating emergency messages from Creole to English). Won contracts with Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft.
15% premium for socially-conscious companies, AND competitive on cost, quality, and turnaround time.
Small scale digital tasks did not exist before.
Transforming lives, especially women, young men, and refugees. $5 a day is very much better than local norms, and buys an active English-speaking brain with hands able to do quality work.
IMPORTANT: Developing world is out-pacing USA and West generally in extending Internet infrastructure to the poor–centers created, humans come in, also doing viewing (Gorgon Stare, take note!), creating logs of store videos on shopper buying habits, anything that can be noticed and logged by a human–$5 a day.
Phi Beta Iota: We could not, in a million years, have found a better “off-set” to the USAF Gorgon Stare program. This micro-tasking, combining human brains and hands with Internet access, is one of the most profoundly intelligent and socio-economically useful ideas we have seen in our lifetimes (there are 800 of us here). BRAVO.
