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Berto Jongman: Food Security — Rotten Intelligence, Worse Ethics

Uncertainty on figures hampering food security efforts Mark Kinver BBC News, 4 October 2013 More than 600 scientists gathered in the Netherlands for a global food security conference, described as the first of its kind. Organisers said science could help end uncertainty surrounding efforts to meet the food needs of future generations. They added that, …

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Berto Jongman: John McAfee Vows to Make Internet “Impossible to Hack” + Internet/Human Intelligence Meta-RECAP [Bottom Line Up Front: Internet without Intelligence and Integrity is Noise]

John McAfee vows to make Internet ‘impossible to hack’ By Dan Nakaso dnakaso@mercurynews.com >Posted:   09/24/2013 05:38:37 PM PDT | Updated:   a day ago SAN JOSE — Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and …

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Jean Lievens: Joe Brewer on the Global Transition – 2012 and Beyond

Toward the Global Transition — 2012 and Beyond EXTRACT: A Time For Bridge-Builders* It is increasingly clear that the institutions of yesterday are inadequate for the challenges of tomorrow.  Multinational corporations bent toward the myopia of quarterly returns are ill-fit for extended periods of volatility and turbulence.  Centralized governments, with an opacity built in to …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Renewable Source Electricity To Exceed Gas and Nuclear by 2016

It is good to see there’s progress towards getting off fossil fuels, but we still have a ways to go … and there are new free energy technologies being developed that may bring us there even faster. Energy Revolution Mark Dansie Revolution-Green.com, 28 June 2013 Electricity generation from renewable sources worldwide will exceed that from …

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Graphic: Gas Exporting Countries — the Twin to OPEC

Source Phi Beta Iota: The next big leap is going to be the combination of solar power, water desalination, hydroponics agriculture and fisheries, and free wireless mesh that provides cellular, Internet access, and education to communities that are totally self-sufficient from centralized anything.  Lacking to date has been a single major investor focused on seeding …

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Jean Lievins: The Networked Society — DISRUPTIVE Technology Rules — and the Most Disruptive of All Technologies is C4ISR Technology that is Also Open Source

It’s about doing the impossible – faster Technology is transforming how everybody builds solutions and faster access to the latest technology gives you an unfair advantage. I work in Silicon Valley and we benefit from that unfair advantage. This is because the technology being invented here is not incremental but disruptive. EXTRACT: You will notice …

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