Reference: Gordon Cook on Technology, Economics & Public Interest – Occupy and the Current Global Downturn

2012-04-13 Cook Report Technology Economy and Public Interest Phi Beta Iota:  Gordon Cook sets the gold standard for thoughtful integrated observations and analysis of the Internet.  His materials is read by the greatest of pioneers such as Vint Cerf, as well as by those who aspire to be pionoeers, such as those building the Freedom …

Robert Steele: World Brain / Global Game Update with Concept for School of Future-Oriented Hybrid Governance and Centre for Multinational Multiagency Multidisciplinary Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2)

As the global economy collapses and increasing numbers recognize that no one is addressing our common problems with intelligence and integrity, it seems like a good time to quickly survey the state of the World Brain /Global Game. Here are a few headlines with short comments. 2011-07-07 Complex Global Issues Explored in the World Brain …

Review: The Triumph of Consciousness – Overcoming False Environmentalists, Lapdog Media and Global Government

Christopher James Clark Quiet Extraordinary — With an Index & Bibliography Would Be a SIX,March 21, 2012 This review is from: The Triumph of Consciousness: Overcoming False Environmentalism, Lapdog Media and Global Government (Paperback) I stumbled on this book by accident, and it has astonished me. With all the books I have read, this is …

Chuck Spinney: The Shadow World of the Global Arms Trade

In my opinion, one of the most important books written in recent years on the subject of the global arms trade and its corrupting effects is Andrew Feinstein’s, The Shadow World, Inside the Global Arms Trade. This voluminous book is mind numbing in its detail, but it is thoroughly sourced and, I believe, it will become a standard reference over time. …

Chuck Spinney: Is Global Warming Religion or Science?

From a perspective of elementary epistemology, the difference between practice of religion and practice of science is really quite simple:  in  religion, one changes one’s observations about reality to fit one’s conception or model of reality ; in science, one changes one’s model of reality to fit one’s observations about reality.  At the heart of …