The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Chance favors the connected mind. by jonl on January 14, 2011 Steve Johnson in an animated conversation (literally) derived from the juices flowing through his book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Ideas grow from slow hunches in collision with each other, and depend on great nurturing ground: coffee houses, salons, …
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A note about “network neutrality” by jonl on January 10, 2011 This is something I posted in the “state of the world” conversation with Bruce Sterling on the WELL… I give talks on the history and future of media, and on the history, evolution, and history of the Internet. I gave the talk this week …
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Lost in a digital world Allison Miller, aged 14, sends and receives 27,000 text messages a month. Hey, that’s only about sixty an hour, every hour she’s awake. Some say that the problem of our age is that continuous partial attention, this never ending non-stop distraction, addles the brain and prevents us from being productive. …
“American soft power is vanishing” by jonl on January 6, 2011 Bruce Sterling and I are well into our annual State of the World conversation over on the WELL. Bruce, who’s traveled the world all his life and has been in unique situations (like his travels through Russia and Eastern Europe after the fall of …
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So this is Christmas… Empathy slaps me silly sometimes, and the “joy of Christmas” can be elusive when you see any fraction of the real pain and suffering in the world. In Buddhism, “suffering” is a technical term that has meanings so deep that words don’t suffice, but the fact is that many people are …
Robert David Steele Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design Posted: December 14, 2010 11:30 AM Personal for Mike Bloomberg This letter, available as a document online, was written before the No Labels “show,” which flopped big time as you now realize. I won’t belabor the headlines (no specifics, no coherence, no point) or the fact that three …
Let the word go out, indeed. “Those are OUR streets, and we will always be there to demonstrate… people learned a lot… we are no longer that post ideological generation, we are no longer that generation that doesn’t care… we are now the generation that will stand with everyone who’s fighting back…” They’re mad as …
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