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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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Rickard Falkvinge: 25,000 Sign Petition to Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor

Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’ Prosecutor Reaches Goal Activism: Early Tuesday morning, the petition to the U.S. Administration to fire Carmen Ortiz reached the prerequisite 25,000 signatures. Carmen Ortiz was the prosecutor that drove the prosecution against Aaron Swartz, which many mean contributed or led to his tragic suicide. The U.S. Administration, by its own rules, …

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Patrick Meier: Creating Resilience through Big Data

How to Create Resilience Through Big Data I’ve been invited by PopTech and the Rockefeller Foundation to give the opening remarks at an upcoming event on interdisciplinary dimensions of resilience, which is  being hosted at Georgetown University. This event is connected to their new program focus on “Creating Resilience Through Big Data.” I’m absolutely de-lighted to be involved …

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Practical Reflections on United Nations Intelligence + UN RECAP

Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT:  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …

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Search: open education / digital learning [as of 30 Oct 2012]

Open education has at least three components:  free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time).  More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous.  Open education has …

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Anthony Judge: Eightfold Configuration of Nested Cycles of Cognitive Transformations: Meta-pattern of connectivity through a hypersphere?

Eightfold Configuration of Nested Cycles of Cognitive Transformations:  Meta-pattern of connectivity through a hypersphere? Produced on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Scientific and Medical Network and the Society for Scientific Exploration on Mapping Time, Mind and Space (Brú na Bóinne, Ireland, 2012). Introduction Use of electrical metaphors for comprehension of transformative cognitive …

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Search: M4IS2 [as of 20121013]

M4IS2 Definitions: M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making Graphic: Core Force for Multinational and Whole of Government Operations In “borderless” cyberspace, nation states struggle — M4IS2 Anyone? Multi-National Decision-Support Centres at P2P Foundation Reference: World Brain Institute & Global Game Robert Steele: Data Is the New Oil BUT No One Is Serious About …

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