The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Contemplative Computing By Klint Finley / July 8, 2011 12:30 PM Last year when Nicholas Carr‘s book The Shallows hit the streets suggesting that the Internet was frying our brains (see our coverage) I asked what we could do to build a less brain damaging Internet. Since then I’ve been too, well, distracted to pursue …
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who has been neutralized by the succession of Russian rulers, especially Putin) has just advised President Obama to get out of Afghanistan. Jonathan Steele suggests here (also attached below) that Obama ought to heed that advice, because Obama is in a similar albeit somewhat worse position than Gorbachev was in 1985-6. Analogies are dangerous, because …
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China’s ‘big hole’ marks scale of supercomputing race 1,000 U.S. scientists are involved in exascale development, but China and Europe have stepped up their investment, IBM warns Computerworld – WASHINGTON — To make a point about China’s interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM’s vice president of deep computing, displayed a slide with a picture depicting …
Human-centered computing should be–but is not today–about connecting all humans with all information in near-real-time, while providing back office tools that elevate the human brain and more properly plan information and communications technologies in a support role. See for example our Citizen-Centered Graphics and all of the OSS/EIN Books. Where the emergent meme is off-target …
Event Description: Where’s My Money?“Over the next five years, IDC expects spending on IT cloud services to grow almost threefold, reaching US$42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9 per cent of revenues in five key market segments. More importantly, spending on cloud computing will accelerate throughout the forecast period, capturing 25 per cent of …
There are at least two organized gangs in cloud computing, with several more emerging in the wings. This is a first cut at what we have in play. Below the fold are a list of members of the Infrastructure 2.0 Gang and the Cloud Connect Gang, followed by a number of headlines from 2007 to …
Communications & Computing Review: Computer-Related Risks Review: Cuckoo’s Egg Review: CYBERPUNK–Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised Review: Cybershock–Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption Review: Database Nation –The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (Paperback) Review: Masters of Deception–The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace Review: Networks and Netwars–The …
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