Stephen E. Arnold: Google Continues to Capture and Pollute World of Knowledge

The Growth of Google’s Knowledge Graph The article titled How a Database of the World’s Knowledge Shapes Google’s Future on MIT Technology Review is an explanation of Google’s Knowledge Graph and the progress made in compiling information to feed into it. The Knowledge Graph began as a database built by Metaweb, which Google acquired in …

Reflections on the Future of Information Technology – An Open Letter

SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Open-Letter This started out as an a letter to the collective leadership of a very promising open source software company, took a side step toward Microsoft, and finally made the leap here as a general open reference. Earth Intelligence Network, A Virginia Non-Profit (501c3) Corporation, is seeking endowed alliances that might wish to advance …

Chris Hedges: The Myth of Human Progress, The Collapse of Complex Societies — and the Salvation in Imagination and Resistance

PHI BETA IOTA ALERT: This is one of the most thoughtful, poetic, and inspiring commentaries we have every posted.  Kudos to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman for finding it. Please do click through and read every word. The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies Truthdig, 26 January 2014 EXTRACTS: We must develop …

Jon Rappoport: Obama Delivers State of the Onion — the Unpublished Truthful Version Leaks

Obama and the State of the Onion Address Apparently, the President had ingested some kind of weird drug, because when he stepped to the podium he didn’t look at the teleprompter. He just started talking. “…like every other recent President, when I take to this platform I’m expected to tell a certain number of lies …

Jean Lievens: 7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020 — Comment by Robert Steele

7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020 TEXT SUMMARY: 1. Websites and Apps will be safer. 2. Everyone could have access to higher education. 3. Landing a job will become easier. 4. Roads will be safer. 5. We’ll predict the future for smarter business. 6. We’ll predict the weather and protect the …