The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Superb Overview and Update As of 2007 August 27, 2010 Maude Barlow I now realize that this book is a sequel to Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water and I will read and review that book next. First off, am really starting to pay attention to Right Livelihood, …
Original, Grounded, a Foundation Book August 27, 2010 Vandana Shiva Published in 2002, this is a foundation book within the twelve books on Water that I am reading, with all reviews both here and at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog where you can easily use Reviews/Water to see all my reviews of books …
Continue reading “Review: Water Wars–Privatization, Pollution, and Profit”
Top of the Fives, A Bold Departure Elegantly Executed August 25, 2010 Erik Assadourian et al I’ve become someone jaundiced about the State of the World series, while always respecting the persistence of Lester Brown (Peter Drucker called people like us “mono-maniacs” essential as change agents), but this one knocked me off my seat just …
Human-centered computing should be–but is not today–about connecting all humans with all information in near-real-time, while providing back office tools that elevate the human brain and more properly plan information and communications technologies in a support role. See for example our Citizen-Centered Graphics and all of the OSS/EIN Books. Where the emergent meme is off-target …
6 STAR Wake Up Call for All Educators August 19, 2010 Curtis J. Bonk UPDATE 21 Aug 2010 to add two graphics. I’ve seen educators struggle to herd their faculty cats, hire staff under industrial-era rules, and strive to accommodate students that know more than their professors about anything outside the “teach to test” topic. …
Continue reading “Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education”
Although this search produces adequate results, because in the absence of comments that we had to turn off to close out Russian spammers, the Search tracker has turned out to be quite valuable as an interactive tool, and we respond to Searches daily. First, here are the results for this search on this blog: ecology …
Recommended by Dr. Kent Myers. Eleveated by Phi Beta Iota to 6 Stars and Beyond because this book is much more readable than Wealth of Networks and captures the essence for the general reader in a manner more likely to accelerate understanding and transformation. 5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended as THE book to understand …
Continue reading “Review (Guest): Cognitive Surplus–Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age”
