The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Insight to collective cooperation……. From Phoenecia to Hayek to the ‘Cloud’ Matt Ridley EXTRACT: Knowledge is dispersed and shared. Friedrich Hayek was the first to point out, in his famous 1945 essay “The Uses of Knowledge in Society,” that central planning cannot work because it is trying to substitute an individual all-knowing intelligence for a …
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Pankaj Ghemawat 5.0 out of 5 stars Six Star Nuanced, Brilliant, the Stuff of Nobel Laureates,September 15, 2011 This is a nuanced book. It is not possible to “review” it without having actually read it, read it carefully, and then read it again. It was easily a five as I got into it, and then …
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I was asked to come in and do this one, and did so gladly. Public intelligence in the public interest, done with integrity, is the global brain. The human brain is the only inexhaustible resource we have, and Priority One should be to empower the five billion poor with connectivity first, and access to all …
CS Note: Lightly reformatted by text unchanged and nothing added Can the United States move beyond the narcissism of 9/11? The unity brought about by the tragedy was intense but fleeting. The war on terror has been disastrous abroad and divisive at home Gary Younge, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 4 September 2011 18.00 In the immediate aftermath of …
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Why Software Is Eating The World Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2011 EN ESPANOL DOCUMENTO 5 PAJINAS This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to …
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