Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Francis Heylighen

Francis Heylighen is a research professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), where he directs the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group. His research is focused on the self-organization and evolution of complex, intelligent systems consisting of many interacting agents. He is editor of the Principia Cybernetica Project for the development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy, …

1993 Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Corporate Role in National Competitiveness: Smart People + Good Tools + Information = Profit What is the Secretary of Labor trying to tell us that the Director of Central Intelligence needs to help his staff to understand? Robert David Steele – Vivas Proceedings, Society of Photo-Optical Engineers (Spring 1994) Original As Published (OSS ’93) Full …

1993 The Intelligence Community as a New Market

As presented to the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services in Washington, D.C. EXTRACT The Intelligence Community Was Built To Do Soviet Secrets The reality is that the intelligence community, in its designs and methods, its collection and production management decisions, and its resource allocations, has been so totally structured for a single mission, …

Robert Steele: Welcoming Remarks to OSS ’92

Steele, Robert. “Welcoming Remarks by Robert D. Steele, Host: Consumer Needs, Data Changes, Technology Changes, Organizational Changes, Future Vision & Issues,” McLean, VA: First International Symposium on National Security & National Competitiveness, Open Source Solutions, December 1, 1992. Full Text Below the Fold