Worth a Look: Traditional Election Reform Activists

Activist Individuals and Organizations If you or your organization are missing send JPEG logo, home page link, and one sentence to robert.david.steele.vivas [*at*] gmail.com. List as originally created by Robert Steele, then candidate for the Reform Party nomination for the presidency, in 2012. Original and more at We the People Reform Coalition.

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Begins to Understand Very High Cost of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Google: Technical Debt Has Implications for Some AI Cheerleaders If you are interested in smart software, you may want to read “Machine Learning: the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.” I like the credit card analogy. It combines big costs with what some folks see as a something-for-nothing feature of the modern world. … …

Steven Aftergood: CRS on Microbead Threat to Water Quality

Microbeads: An Emerging Water Quality Issue Claudia Copeland, Specialist in Resources and Environmental Policy (ccopeland@crs.loc.gov, 7-7227) July 20, 2015 (IN10319) EXTRACT Microbeads are synthetic particles made of either polyethylene or polypropylene plastic. …  Because microbeads are so small, most wastewater treatment plant technology is not capable of removing them from the wastestream. Most microbeads do …

Howard Rheingold: Networked Knowledge & Combinatorial Creativity

This beautiful meditation on the networked nature of knowledge and collaboration turns on the fulcrum of attention to information. Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information and each other shapes who we become, shapes our creative destiny and, in turn, shapes our experience of the world. And, …

2015 Robert Steele: The National Military Strategy – Dishonest Platitudes

The National Military Strategy – Dishonest Platitudes CounterPunch, 6 July 2015 The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has released the National Military Strategy. As a propaganda document, presenting weakness as strength and seeking to gain trust in that which should not be trusted, it is stellar. By naming four main enemies (Russia, Iran, …

NATO Strategic Foresight Wrap-Up

Create an account or log-in to harvest the three days of consideration of strategic foresight across multiple domains: http://innovationhub-act.org/ New joins are welcome at any time. The next planned event is …. ROBERT STEELE:  My own wrap-up comments are below.