Stuart Umpleby: Limitations of Hand-Held Dashboards + Cyber-Brain RECAP

Before Fruit Ninja, Cybernetics By WILL WILES New York Times, November 29, 2012 EXTRACT (Conclusion) The No. 10 Dashboard taps into the same desire to master available information — a desire that has only grown as the amount of information in circulation has increased. Where Cybersyn needed dedicated national infrastructure and rooms full of equipment, …

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All donations receive specified book, shipping, emailed non-profit (tax deductible) receipt, and inscription if desired as specified in purpose line at PayPal.   – + – + – + – + – + – + – + 2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity & Sustainability Capstone book on hybrid governance based on shared information and …

Review: Using Data Sharing to Improve Coordination in Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding

Andrew Robertson and Steve Olson (eds.) 4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent First Step, Four Disappointments, January 2, 2013 This is one of the more useful reports to come out of the US Institute of Peace and its collaborative effort with the National Academy of Engineering and I highly recommend it for either free reading …

Tony Zinni: Background & Confirmation of the 4% “At Best” Quote on Secret versus Open Sources

ROBERT STEELE: I am doing fact-checking as I create the first textbook on intelligence that is useful to all eight tribes of intelligence and breaks away from the mis-directed focus on expensive useless secrets for policy alone.  Below from Colonel GI Wilson, USMC (Ret) Yes, sir. This is how I recall it and Zinni confirms …

Reflections on Healing the Americas — Open Source Agency & Hourglass Strategy

The Hourglass Strategy: Healing the Americas with Intelligence & Integrity Robert David STEELE Vivas, CEO, Earth Intelligence Network Mr. Steele grew up in Latin America, returning as a clandestine case officer, and then going on to teach governments across the region how to leverage Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).  He is the #1 Amazon reviewer for …

2012 Robert Steele Proposal for a World Brain Institute and Development of a Global Game

Proposal for a World Brain Institute and Development of a Global Game ·Transhumanism, December 26, 2012 [Editor’s Note: The World Brain was  proposed in collection of essays by H. G. Wells, wherein Wells describes his vision of the world brain: essentially a free, synthetic, universal, authoritative, and permanent “World Encyclopaedia” very much like today’s Wikipedia. Wells imagined this resource would help world …