Berto Jongman: WIRED on Right Way to Build Smart Cities

Here’s the Right Way to Build the Futuristic Cities of Our Dreams By Adie Tomer and Rob Puentes WIRED, 04.23.14 Our technology-first approach has failed the city of the future. So-called “smart cities,” powered by technology, carry the promise of responding to the great pressures of our time, such as urban population growth, climate instability, and …

Robert Steele: YouTube Broadcast – Links

ROBERT STEELE: Why Big Data is Stillborn (for Now) + Comments from EIN Technical Council Robert Steele: PhD Proposal — includes new M4IS2/OSE Conference 2014 Robert Steele: Beyond the Open Source Agency – School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance, World Brain Institute, PhD in Comprehensive Architecture See Also:

Robert Steele: Why Big Data is Stillborn (for Now) + Comments from EIN Technical Council

Big Data 101 Terabyte a day from a single sensor is a big deal. Put enough of them together and you get a petabyte that would take three years to transfor over existing legacy pipes. The “cloud” is fiction — picture using a straw to suck on the ocean. 01 Most pipes are in the …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Tells Political Truth — But Still Does Not Make Sense

Google Gets Political It’s not often in this day and age that a Fortune 500 company rattles any political cages. In most cases, companies keep their noses out of Washington, or at least disguise their motives behind lobbyists. However, Google seems to be making some striking political waves, as we discovered in a recent NBC …

Robert Steele: PhD Proposal

As part of this endeavor, a new annual conference is planned that will focus on M4IS2/OSE, and in passing, redefine both political science and the craft of intelligence as we go forward together. DOC (5 Pages):  2014-04-23 (3.8) PhD Research Proposal Robert David Steele Professional Site 2014 Research Proposal – Political Science Multi-Disciplinary Evidence-Based Sustainable …

Yoda: Hypertemporal Multispectral Imaging & Intelligence

Fun this is. Hypertemporal imaging: the next Big Challenge for high-performance embedded computing By John Keller, Editor Military & Aerospace Electronics, 1 April 2014 It might be a fun exercise to sit with the leading practitioners of high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) to trade opinions about what are the toughest, gnarliest, most knee-buckling HPEC challenges in …

Chuck Spinney: Toxic Alliance – Neo-Cons and “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) War-mongers

This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News.  Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …