The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research By Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Thank you for your participation in the We the People platform. The Obama Administration agrees that citizens deserve easy access to the …
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The web’s “Kevin Bacon effect” sees sites connected by 19 clicks or less Like the myth that every Hollywood actor is somehow linked to Kevin Bacon by no more than six people, websites are also limited in how far they are apart. A Hungarian physicist has found that every website on the internet is connected …
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Life in a Networked Age Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:11 PM PST Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related …
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Internyet Nescience? Self-referential upgrading of obsolete Internet conference processes inhibiting emergence of integrative knowledge Introduction Internet science? Methodological possibilities Representation possibilities Conclusion References Paper originally envisaged for the 1st International Conference on Internet Science (10-13 April 2013, Brussels) held under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS project, the FP7 European Network of …
Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for 2013 We are delighted to share with you our 2013 list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.This marks the third year that we are publishing our 100 list. We’ve done our best to consider as many people as possible and our spiritual database includes the names of over …
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Douglas Rushkoff has been an authority on the intersection of technology and culture since before the word “google” was anything more than baby talk. He predicted the coming centrality of the Internet (CYBERIA, 1992 – a book initially canceled by a publisher who feared the net would be over by the time it came out); …
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We are long past due cutting the chains of predatory proprietary expensive, non-scalable, non-interopperable software. Open Source Everything (OSE) is a very ugly baby, but it is the only baby that has a chance of affordable scaling to meet the needs of all humanity. Indifference of market leaders kills their own markets Internet transforming higher …
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