Marc Andreessen: US Education Crisis–Young and Old

Why Software Is Eating The World Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2011 EN ESPANOL DOCUMENTO 5 PAJINAS This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to …

Robert Steele: Microsoft Operation Cloudburst

After some effort, the below memorandum on Operation Cloudburst was delivered to and read by Reed Hastings and Norm Judah (the latter Chief Technical Officer for Microsoft).  Microsoft as a culture evidently cannot make the intellectual leap from legacy kludge to Open Everything, monetizing the aggregate instead of the instance.  This memorandum is the intellectual …

Search: readable version of alternative paradigm

There are two alternative paradigms in the history of this modern reform fight.  Here they are: 1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm) 2001 Threats, Strategy, and Force Structure: An Alternative Paradigm for National Security Not labeled an alternative paradigm, but of over-arching importance, is this contribution: 1996: CREATING A SMART NATION: …

Steven Aftergood: USG Information Sharing Update

Information Sharing Still a Work in Progress August 12th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood While information sharing among government agencies has increased dramatically over the past decade, it still falls short in some areas. Due to “impediments to intelligence information sharing between U.S. forces and coalition partners,” information sharing with U.S. allies in Afghanistan has faltered …

Graphic: Mike Bloomberg Tests Cyber-Perceptions

Source Phi Beta Iota:  He certainly looks Presidential.  Unfortunately, he’s also at 2 strikes between the inauthentic manipulators that concocted NO LABELS and the hedge-fund slight-of-hand experts behind Americans Elect.  We like Mike Bloomberg.  If he can connect to reality and learn from the collective intelligence/open space communities, he could and should be President.  Seven …