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Berto Jongman: Kurzweil on Global Networks Must be Redesigned

Missing from all this is the OSC/M4IS2 solution. Global networks must be redesigned May 2, 2013 Our global networks have generated many benefits and new opportunities. However, they have also established highways for failure propagation, which can ultimately result in man-made disasters. For example, today’s quick spreading of emerging epidemics is largely a result of …

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Anthony Judge: Dynamic Transformation of Static Reporting of Global Processes

Dynamic Transformation of Static Reporting of Global Processes Suggestions for process-oriented titles of global issue reports EXTRACT Given the increasingly disastrous “state of the world”, and that foreseen for the future, it is appropriate to ask whether another language might enable meaning to be carried otherwise — and potentially more imaginatively and fruitfully. There is …

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Marcus Aurelius: Special Forces Autonomous, Morphing Into White SOF Going Global

Washingtonpost.com, March 29, 2013 Drawing Down, But Still Projecting Power By David Ignatius TAMPA–The emblem of the U.S. Special Operations Command pointedly illustrates its mission: It shows the tip of a spear. Now SOCOM is expanding this arsenal to create a global network that can project power even as America’s armies withdraw from the battlefields …

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Review: Global Trends 2030 – Alternative Worlds [Paperback, Well Priced]

National Intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI/NIC) 3.0 out of 5 stars $75 Billion a Year and This is the Poster Child for the Public, March 26, 2013 Certainly worth reading, along with other and generally better reports linked below, but a huge disappointment. There is nothing here actually useful to …

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Reference: DNI Global Threat Testimony 2013

2013-03-12 DNI to SSCI Threat Assessment HIGHLIGHTS: Recognizes how quickly and radically the world — and our threat environment — are changing. “This environment is demanding reevaluations of the way we do business, expanding our analytic envelope, and altering the vocabulary of intellignece.  Threats are more diverse, interconnected, and viral than at any other time …

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Patrick Meier: Using CrowdFlower to Microtask Disaster Response — and Robert Steele on CrowdFlower to Manage Micro-gifting Local to Global Range of Needs & Fulfillment Table to Household Level

Using CrowdFlower to Microtask Disaster Response Cross-posted from CrowdFlower blog A devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. Two weeks later, on January 27th, a CrowdFlower was used to translate text messages from Haitian Creole to English. Tens of thousands of messages were sent by affected Haitians over the course of several months. All of these were …

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Review (Guest): Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

James Billington 4.0 out of 5 stars What is reason and logic? By what standard is paradise measured. March 4, 2008 By Henri Porter By Henri Porter Anyone who reads this and is still a bit unsure should read Yevgeny Zamyatin’s book WE and Djilas’ The New Class: An Analysis Of Communist System. If they …

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