Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Funding + PBI Comment – Not Matched by Vision, Engineering, or Utility

Palantir and Its Funding I read “Palantir May Have Raised More Than We Thought, Perhaps $165 million.” The article presented a revisionist view of how much money is in the Palantir piggy bank. Here’s the number I circled: $165 million since February 2014. I also marked this paragraph: The Palo Alto company led by CEO …

Yoda: Big Data Potential — and Ignorance

Baby steps… What Big Data Can Mean for Sustainability The first Industrial Revolution showed the world how much machines could accomplish. What GE calls the “Next Industrial Revolution” is now showing how much machines can accomplish when they communicate with each other. And just as steam — and later electricity — powered the first industrial …

2014-09-13 INTERVIEW Robert Steele with Pierre Cloutier Québec – plaidoyer pour une nation intelligente

Les grandes entrevue de Vigile : Robert Steele Québec : plaidoyer pour une nation intelligente Le Québec pourrait servir de modèle pour le monde entier Pierre Cloutier Tribune libre de Vigile samedi 13 septembre Robert David Steele Vivas est un vrai patriote américain. Ancien marine, ancien agent de la CIA en Amérique du Sud et ailleurs, co-fondateur du …

Mark Dixon: Digital Druid – America, We Have A Problem

Mark Dixon is a partner in the Principled Society Project and a pioneer in Smart Local Government and Cognitive Digital Democracy. America…..we have a problem. “We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” So says E. O. Wilson in his latest book, “The Social Conquest of Earth”. …