The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Obedience Training: The Truth about the Pledge of Allegiance
A look into the origins of the pledge of allegiance – mandatory regurgitation for school children – reveals that it was actually created by a magazine in 1892 in order to sell flags to schools, and the pledge was created by Francis Bellamy to create a reason for schools to buy the flags. In turn, this social ritual creates cohesion and unity in the mind of the public with the federal government.
TechnoCalyps Part I TransHuman
I think humanity is in dangerous territory in respect of the ever-increasing concentration of money, therein power, in consequence of companies, such as Facebook, “shamelessly” [to quote the BBC] avoiding tax via offshore holding companies.
Individuals tend to dislike paying taxes, because it’s often hard for them to see where their contribution goes. However, wherever it goes, ultimately, tax is, at least hypothetically, democratic, wherein voters have a say in how much they pay, and have capacity to influence where it goes.
However, when money, therein power, is pooled into the hands of the few, not the many, we approach a Nero-esque scenario, in which the likes of Facebook executives have influence disproportionate to their experience, and worse still, influence that is undemocratic.
Basic Income is getting more and more serious consideration. Can't have a society where work is the passport to life and then there is no work to be found…
Why a bunch of Silicon Valley investors are suddenly interested in universal basic income
Basic income is having a moment. First Finland announced it would launch an ambitious experiment to see if it would work to give everyone in a given area is given a set amount of cash every year from the government, no strings attached. Now the Silicon Valley seed investment firm Y Combinator has announced it wants to fund a basic income experiment in the US.1
Important New Film Exposes Neocon Stranglehold on Washington
Fascinating and frightening, hard to watch at times, but important and ultimately very compelling
Enter Robbie Martin’s film seriesA Very Heavy Agenda.
Human Intelligence and Open Source Technologies
Robert Steele on February 1, 2016 in SingularityWeblog
The current fads
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) are hot current fads. Both technologies have been a long time in gestation. The ramp-up has taken decades. The current bet – one I do not agree with – is that both of these product categories will take off like the Internet or the mobile phone.
They are fads in part because they are totally disconnected from the larger real world in which we all live. I worry about artificial stupidity being deeply embedded in bureaucratic and machine processes that take on a life of their own, and I worry about so much money being spent on virtual reality that we forget we have been pooping on ourselves with abandon for two centuries and the cesspool is now up to our nose. Nature bats last – no amount of VR is going to change that.
Four Reasons Why You've Got A Rotten Job — Or No Job At All
Last week, the Innovation for Jobs ECO Summit in the heart of Silicon Valley in Menlo Park, California (January 28-29, 2016), led by David Nordfors and Vint Cerf, explored an amazing array of issues and possible solutions.
These are important issues and exciting ideas to deal with them.
Continue reading “Steve Denning: Four Reasons Why You've Got a Rotten Job — or No Job at All”
