Berto Jongman: The Sigularity of Fools

The Singularity of Fools A special report from the utopian future. David Rieff Foreign Policy, May/June 2013 EXTRACT Even comparative moderates in the futurological sweepstakes tend to swoon when the subject is the pace of technology-led change. Ethan Zuckerman, director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, argues in his new book, Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in …

Theophillis Goodyear: The Second Enlightment Emergent Now — Comment by Bojan Radej

The Second Enlightenment Has Emerged: We Should Call It What It Is Have you ever noticed that there’s no convenient, sufficient, or satisfying way to pull all the threads together of all the inter-related branches of wisdom that we’re always talking about? despite the fact that they all seem to be part of the same …

Yoda: Human API?

Human, force is. Plugging into the Future of Humanity: Exploring the Human API I recently had the opportunity to present at LeWeb in Paris, arguably Europe’s largest conference dedicated to the future of technology. The theme of the conference explored the Internet of Things, where devices and things connect to one another to perform certain …

Andrea Pitasa: Hypercitizenship & New Directions in Goverance and the Law

Hypercitizenship and the Management of Genetic Diversity. Sociology of Law and the Key Systemic Bifurcation Between the RING Singularity and the Neofeudal Age Andrea Pitasi Associate Professor at the Gabriele D’Annunzio University, Chieti and Pescara, Italy. Abstract This essay is essentially theoretical and is focused on the allocative function of the legal systems to attract/reject …

Anthony Judge: Laetus in Praesens – Convergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends

Convergence of 30 Disabling Global Trends Mapping the social climate change engendering a perfect storm Introduction Checklist of 30 disabling trends Spiraling trends: cyclones in a climate of change? Interweaving “cyclones” and “anti-cyclones” in a global system Emergent polyhedral configuration of alternating systemic functions Insights from the Conference of the Birds? Conclusion References See Also: …

Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Afghanistan Poisoning of School Girls Anti-Piracy and Humanitarian Operations British Jihaddists Training in Middle East David Sanger Revelations Drugs, Crime, & Development Election Theft in the USA FBI Mueller on TEDAC and IED Analysis From Drugs to Gold – Baron Diversification Happy Planet Index India’s Cyber-Security Russia Music and Protest Russian Botnet – 6 million …