Berto Jongman: Mind Control in the 21st Century – Overview of the State of the Art and Future Prospects

Mind Control in the 21st Century-Science Fiction & Beyond Pravda, 05.02.2014  By Steven DiBasio ***Part One*** Conspiracy Theory? “Mind control” is a topic commonly perceived as “conspiracy theory” or “X-Files” fare. That is, it is seen as possibly not “real,” and certainly not something about which one should be “overly” concerned. This attitude at least …

Mini-Me: Is Google Stupid? Here’s The Plan — and the Phi Beta Iota Alternative

Huh? Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant By Marcus Wohlsen WIRED 01.27.14 Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known …

Berto Jongman: Massimo Pigliucci – Is Information Physical? And what does that mean?

Is information physical? And what does that mean? Massimo Pigliucci Rationally Speaking Posted: Jan 24, 2014 Massimo Pigliucci I’ve been reading for a while now Jim Baggott’s Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth, a fascinating tour through cutting edge theoretical physics, led by someone with a physics background …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 1.7

BIG DATA: Rutgers Predicting Crime with Big Data, Affordably BOOK: Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA (John Rizzo as reviewed by Dina Temple-Raston) BOOK: Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity (Cynthia Sue Larson) CYBER: Intrusive Meta-Data CYBER: Zeus Malware Targeting Small Banks and Credit Unions DEATH: 25,000 …