The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
White House Issues a “National” Science & Tech Agenda
Hat’s off to Steve Aftergood for sharing with us the extraordinarily weak, biased, and ineffective national S&T guidance.
R&D today is corrupt because it is focused on increasing the transfer of wealth from the 99% to the 1%. In that sense, reducing existing R&D programs is the right thing to do.
Continue reading “Robert Steele: President’s R&D Guidance is WEAK”
How citizen science and open-source tech can create change
Citizen science often gets a bad rap, but a new short film shows how people who take research and data collection into their own hands can influence local environmental policies.
Augmented Intelligence with Human-Machine Integrity:
Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE)
UPDATE:
PDF (26 Pages):
Chapter Steele on Augmented Intelligence as Published
Full Text of Author’s Final Draft (Pre-Editing) Below the Fold
What if…public libraries could anchor a platform cooperative?
Supporting the disrupted going forward….
We recently published our submission to the Libraries Taskforce consultation about its draft strategy – Libraries Deliver: An Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-21. Today, we want to say a bit more about our having called upon the Taskforce to explore the opportunities for public libraries that could flow from the growth of the ‘sharing economy’ and, in particular, moves to establish Platform Cooperatives.
An Open Letter to All European Ministers
Esteemed Ministers,
On 27 May the Competitiveness Council in Brussels announced a European decision to achieve Open Access to all scientific research data by 2020. This decision, and the implementing European framework programme for research and innovation Horizon 2020, will be recognized by future generations as the first serious step toward the creation of a prosperous world at peace. With this one decision Europe is turning away from centuries of war and waste; away from scientific reductionism, away from corporate ownership of public knowledge, away from legal barriers to innovation, and away from government neglect of the public interest.
Between this and the Goggle vs. Oracle ruling, it was a great week.
All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020
All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020. EU member states want to achieve optimal reuse of research data. They are also looking into a European visa for foreign start-up founders.
Phi Beta Iota: The cash flow positions of Thomson Reuters, Elsevier, and Bloomberg are strong for now, the mind-sets appear less so.
See Especially:
Open Source Governance: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (EU OSAR)
Robert Steele: Can Thomson Reuters [or Bloomberg] Be a $20B+ per Year World Brain?
See Also:
After 350 years of academic journals it’s time to shake things up
All scientific papers to be free by 2020 under EU proposals
Berto Jongman: Pirate Science — Are Elsevier & Thomson Reuters Joining Bloomberg in the Tarpit?
Sepp Hasslberger: Elsevier & Thomson Reuters Et al — Going, Going, Gone?
The Future: Recent “Core” Work by Robert Steele
Welcome to Open Source Medical Imaging. A prototype machine will be $10k in materials instead of $1M off the shelf, and first images are expected next year. Lukas has received a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant for this work, and just presented this at the world’s largest MR conference.