The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Social Media: The First 2,000 Years What do Papyrus rolls and Twitter have in common? Both were used as a means of “instant” communication. Indeed, a careful reading of history reveals just how ancient social media really is. Further, the questions we pose about social media today have already been debated countless times over hundreds of …
Catalog of the Snowden Revelations About NSA This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States’ surveillance activities. Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA …
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Ouroboros — the fate of the modern way of life Ouroboros is the mythical snake that eats its own tail. In this case, it represents how modernity ends. It eats itself. Specifically, the technologies the modern system accelerated, are in the process of obsoleting it. Eating its value, industry by industry. Job by job. The …
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INTERNET: animation about the end of net neutrality INTERNET: apocalypse? INTERNET: Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications on net neutrality INTERNET: goodbye net neutrality INTERNET: net neutrality endangered INTERNET: net neturality is not totally lost INTERNET: possible implications of ending net neutrality (Sorcha Faal)
All The Stuff Google Will Do Ray Kurzwell knows how to predict the future. He is not a psychic, but he is Google’s director of engineering and he is designing the technology that will impact the future. Kurzwell has a long list of accomplishments, highlighted on Jimi Disu’s Blog in a recent post: “Google’s Ray …
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Defense Science Board Off Point on Open Source Intelligence Reform Gregory Kulacki Union of Concerned Scientists, 28 January 2013 About the author: Gregory has lived and worked in China for the better part of the last twenty-five years facilitating exchanges between academic, governmental, and professional organizations in both countries. Since joining the Union of Concerned …
Huh? Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant By Marcus Wohlsen WIRED 01.27.14 Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known …
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