Stephen E. Arnold: Venture Investments in Search Go Up In Smoke — Way Opens for Open Source Everything Solutions

Is Time Running Out for Non Performing, Venture Funded Enterprise Search Vendors? Gee, impatient venture capital firms, grousing partners hungry for a payday, and agitated stakeholders, are these usually cheerful folks worrying about getting their money back with a hefty profit? My hunch is that some who wrote checks might be thinking about a vacation …

CounterPunch: Robert Steele: A Fantasy On the Seventh Day — How to Fast Track Extreme Democracy in the USA

A Fantasy: On the Seventh Day DAY ONE The fat sweaty Capitol Hill policeman was in lust. The perfect babe was walking past him toward the steps of The Capitol, wearing only a T-shirt and the shortest of shorts, carrying only a cell phone and a jug. The possibilities of a wet T-shirt fully occupied …

Yoda: Open Source Everything Wiki

Rise, you will. Below is the first announcement of an Open Source Everything wiki facilitating easy comprehensive documentation and outreach across the nine major open sub-categories listed below. 1. Open Data   .   2. Open Governance   .   3. Open Health   .   4. Open Infrastructures   .   5. Open Intelligence   .   6. Open Manufacturing   .   7. Open Provisioning   …

Answers: Steele for NATO Strategic Foresight

My preliminary contributions to the NATO Strategic Foresight Online Workshop. I have no appointment or connection to NATO or the Transformation Command. This workshop is open to the public without restriction. Characteristics of the Future Threats & Possibilities Economic Considerations Environmental Considerations Human Considerations I & II Political Considerations Technology Considerations Strategic Foresight I & …

Dmytri Kleiner on Radical Openness

“Thinking about “the challenges of a open practice” gets me thinking about what “radical openness” could mean. On the surface, it could just mean really, really, extremely, very open. But that’s a overly colloquial understanding of the word radical, as in “totally rad,” as opposed to “radical critique.” Extreme or drastic is not necessarily radical. …

Michel Bauwens: The Transition Will Not Be Smooth

Tip of the Hat to Jean Lievens. Michel Bauwens: The Transition Will Not Be Smooth Sailing This is an English translation of Arthur De Grave’s interview in French. Cross-posted from OuiShare. Michel Bauwens is one of the pioneers of the peer-to-peer movement. Theoretician, activist, and public speaker, he founded the P2P Foundation in 2005. His work, both …

Sepp Hasslberger: SpaceX Satellite Internet – Cheap and Uncensored?

Between the local WiFi networks uniting neighbourhoods and whole cities being developed a bit all over the world, and a satellite based cheap broadband link into the internet, we just might end up with a net that is more resilient in the case of disasters and less open to surveillance, which today is quite ubiquitous… …