SchwartzReport: 1,000 Year Drought in Eight Years — Corrupt Ignorant Governments Will Ignore This and Waste All Eight of Those Years

This is what we are headed towards unless we make massive adjustments in our way of life. Worst Drought in 1,000 Years Could Begin in Eight Years Beginning in just eight years, we could see permanent climate conditions across the North American Southwest that are comparable to the worst megadrought in 1,000 years. (1) The …

Yoda: Integral Science Is the Force — Joining Intelligence with Integrity

Imagine that the year is 1543 and you have just completed reading Copernicus’ newly published book, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres, that has attempted to convince you that your daily experience of the sun moving around a stationary earth is an illusion. What do you think the chances are that you would have …

John Robb: Life in the Networked Age — P2P versus Google-zilla

Life in a Networked Age Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:11 PM PST Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related …

Patrick Meier: Verily: Crowdsourcing Evidence During Disasters

Verily: Crowdsourcing Evidence During Disasters Social media is increasingly used for communicating during crises. This rise in Big (Crisis) Data means that finding the proverbial needle in the growing haystack of information is becoming a major challenge. Social media use during Hurricane Sandy produced a “haystack” of half-a-million Instagram photos and 20 million tweets. But which …

INTELLIGENCE with INTEGRITY Chapter 4: Four Domains for Applied Intelligence

Utilizar el Traductor de Google en la parte superior de la columna central Utilisez Google Translate au haut de la colonne du milieu Google’ın Orta Sütun Top of Çevir kullanın Используйте Google Translate в верхней части среднего столбца Sử dụng Google Translate Đầu Cột Trung उपयोग Google मध्य स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद 在中间一列的顶部,使用谷歌翻译 استخدام …

Berto Jongman: Special Librarians Association Considers How Librarians Might be Intelligence Discovery Specialists — It Only Took Them TWENTY YEARS From When the Idea was First Presented

SLA 2013 Annual Confernce, 9 June Dr. Edna Reid, intelligence analyst (IA) in the federal government, and Aileen Marshall will present an interactive session about emerging roles for librarians/information professionals as intelligence analysts (IAs), open source specialists, and cyber intelligence analysts. The workshop will involve dissecting job descriptions for IAs, comparing competencies of librarians and …