2014 Robert Steele Applied Collective Intelligence

Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-ACI As published: Spanda CI–Applied collective intelligence Citation: Steele, R.D. (2014) “Applied Collective Intelligence: Human-Centric Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything,” Spanda Journal (Vol. 2, pp 127-137) ABSTRACT: The emerging discipline of Collective Intelligence (CI) has been mis-directed by a combination of the faddish focus on “wisdom of the crowds” …

Berto Jongman: Four Out of Nine Bioloigical & Environmental “Boundaries” Critical

Humans Cross Another Danger Line for the Planet Five years ago an impressive, international group of scientists unveiled nine biological and environmental “boundaries” that humankind should not cross in order to keep the earth a livable place. To its peril, the world had already crossed three of those safe limits: too much carbon dioxide in …

Review: Beyond the Fracking Wars – A Guide for Lawyers, Public Officials, Planners, and Citizens

Erica Levine Powers and Beth E. Kinne (editors) 4 stars. Useful contribution badly marketed and badly priced The authors, being from New York, know what the NYT and Mother Jones both missed in their stories on Governor Cuomo banning fracking in New York: that it was a legal couple Helen and David Slottje that went …

Sepp Hasslberger: Archaemicrobes Convert Oil Into Nutrients — Oil Eating Microbes

Archaemicrobes are much better than trying to “dissolve” oil with toxic chemical solutions as was done in the Gulf of Mexico. It won’t be pushed by the oil companies (it’s not an oil-based chemical) but it can be imposed by government agencies. YouTube (8:02) Megaborg Oil Spill YouTube (2:32) Fox News 7 and Oppenheimer Biotechnology …

Review (Guest): The American Deep State – Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on US Democracy

Peter Dale Scott 5 Star  Connecting the Dots By The Peripatetic Reader on December 13, 2014 Peter Dale Scott has written many books about the Deep State at work in the U.S. government. Scott depicts American society as structurally and inherently schizophrenic. Just as there is the public government and the deep government, and ordinary …