The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Cost reduction for high-end markets If you sell at the top of the market (luxury travel, services to Fortune 500 companies, financial services for the wealthy…) you might be tempted to figure out ways to cut costs and become more efficient. After all, if you save a dollar, you make a dollar, without even getting …
STATE SECRETS VS. THE RULE OF LAW The inherent tension between the state secrets privilege and the rule of law reached the breaking point last week when an appeals court dismissed the claims of several persons who said they were illegally transported and tortured through a CIA “extraordinary rendition” program. They would not be permitted …
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Lieutenant Colonel Hans F. Palaoro, USAF, wrote this essay while a student at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. It won the Strategy Article category of the 2010 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategic Essay Competition. EXTRACT: While information power is well accepted as one of the four elements of national power, …
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. …
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UPDATE of 20 August 2010. Ray Kurzweil Responds to “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain” August 20, 2010 by Ray Kurzweil While most of PZ Myers’ comments (in his blog post entitled “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain” posted on Pharyngula on August 17, 2010) do not deserve a response, I do want …
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Beyond 5–SPECTACULAR–Integrative & Inspiring, August 17, 2010 David Perkins I bumped this book to the front of the line after reading the galley of Reflexive Practice: Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World which in turn bumped The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education that I had half-finished. The three together make for …
