Worth a Look: Talking Plants–Sensor to Shooter

“Homegrown Terra-rists” Ignite Video The Ignite Show just posted episode 2, Kati’s Botanicalls Ignite NYC talk from back in September 2008 during Web 2.0 Expo. You may want to skip past the intro…and start at 1:33. The Botanicalls system and applications use networked open source hardware and software to allow plants to communicate with people …

Review: Comeback America–Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility (Hardcover)

Ten Years Late, More Whimper than Roar February 7, 2010 David Walker I was watching David Walker as he served nine of his fifteen years at Comptroller General, with light-weight whimpers to Congress until he finally got Peter Peterson to bail him out of government and give him a chunk of cash for making movies …

Bruce Berkowitz: Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution The DI and “IT”

Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution: The (CIA) DI and “IT” Bruce Berkowitz Studies in Intelligence, 2007 During 2001-2002, I was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, the “think tank” attached to the CIA’s training center for analysts.  The CIA has long used such scholars as expert analysts, but …

Informed, Engaged, Democracy Collective Public Intelligence

May 3, 2006 Citizens Party, part II Informed, Engaged, Democracy Collective Public Intelligence By: Robert D. Steele Introduction If we want an extraordinary future for all of our children, America and Americans must embrace reality. While, as a society, we may have recently found it comfortable to ignore reality, reality is most assuredly going forward, …