The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I was glad to respond to an invitation to write “Beyond Data Monitoring,” a Background Paper for the UN International Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) on the Data Revolution, co-chaired by Robin Li of Baidu, which is good, with Open Source represented by Tim “algorithms rule” O’Reilly, which is bad. Although the paper gained no traction …
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Keepod: Can a $7 stick provide billions computer access? By Dan Simmons BBC, 9 May 2014 The USB flash drive is one of the most simple, everyday pieces of technology that many people take for granted. Now it’s being eyed as a possible solution to bridging the digital divide, by two colourful entrepreneurs behind the …
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SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Analysis I was thinking this morning about how little has changed since I was a founding member of the Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group (AIPASG) and also a member of the Information Handling Committee (IHC) for the US secret world (late 1980’s early 1990’s). I note in passing my continued dismay …
Watson and Shopping: No Service, Just an Assertion I read “Make IBM’s Watson Your Personal Shopping Assistant.” IBM wants to leapfrog www.pricewatch.com, www.amazon.com, and the aging www.mysimon.com, among other shopping services. Now quite a few people have embraced Amazon’s flawed, yet popular, recommendations service. I am trying to remember when I first noticed this somewhat …
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Google Gets Political It’s not often in this day and age that a Fortune 500 company rattles any political cages. In most cases, companies keep their noses out of Washington, or at least disguise their motives behind lobbyists. However, Google seems to be making some striking political waves, as we discovered in a recent NBC …
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Mafia Wars: How Italy’s Military Police Use Metadata To Track Organized Crime The Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, used a new software platform to analyze the phone records of organized crime groups. Here’s what happened. There’s a reason why the NSA likes metadata so much. Metadata–the auxiliary data generated by every digital move you make–can track …
Michel Bauwens, founder of the Peer to Peer (P2P) Foundation and one of my personal pioneer heroes, is deeply engaged in Ecuador with a Presidential initiative. This endeavor could be world-changing, first in Ecuador, then across South America, and ultimately around the globe starting with the BRICS and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere. I …
