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Graphic: Yoda Got Crowd at Hackers
Citizen-Centered, Earth Orientation, Graphics, Innovation, Leadership-Integrity, Multinational Plus, Policies-Harmonization, Political, Reform, Resilience, Tribes, True CostGraphic: Bloomberg’s Circus (NO LABELS, America Elects, IndependentVoting.org)
Corruption, Graphics, Political
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Graphic: Big Bat USA Financial Comparisons
Citizen-Centered, Graphics, Innovation, Political, Reform
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Graphic: Steele at Hackers Briefing Cover
Citizen-Centered, Graphics, Political, Reform
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20120712 Open Source Everything Highlights
Highlights
Open Source Everything
TWITTER HASH: #openall
DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL
ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT
THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele
THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012
All the Opens Below the Line. Also Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency-Truth-Trust, & True Cost
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Review: Seven Complex Lessons for the Future
6 Star Top 10%, Best Practices in Management, Complexity & Resilience, Consciousness & Social IQ, Culture, Research, Decision-Making & Decision-Support, Democracy, Economics, Education (General), Education (Universities), Information Operations, Intelligence (Public), Intelligence (Wealth of Networks), Nature, Diet, Memetics, Design, Strategy, Survival & Sustainment, True Cost & Toxicity, Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution
Edgar Morin
5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star Spectacular,July 12, 2012
This is one of a handful of books I will not donate to the library as has been my custom. I first learned of this author through his work Homeland Earth : A Manifesto for the New Millennium (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity and the Human Sciences). I was hugely drawn into the author's brilliant web of thinking, and delighted to learn that he is still alive and active in France.
This book can serve in so many ways. For myself, it is an independent confirmation of all that I have been exploring through the minds of others–the 1,800 plus authors whose works I have reviewed here at Amazon. It is a spectacular indictment of the existing educational, intelligence, and research systems that have become so fragmented and wasteful as to be an impediment to progress.
Since Look Inside the Book is not available, I will just list the main chapter heading–each chapter has three sub-chapters. This is an elegant cathedral of a book, the equivalent for the author's huge body of work that Will and Ariel Durant's Lessons of History 1ST Edition was for their own multi volume The Story of Civilization (11 Volume Set).
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Review: The Mobile Wave
4 Star, Change & Innovation, Information Society, Information Technology
Michael Saylor
4.0 out of 5 stars 5 for Elegant Simplicity, 3 for Dumbed Down,July 12, 2012
For a guy who once said he was worth $600,000 a hour, I was expecting a great deal more. This is a Classic Comic for the masses–now I used to own all of the Classic Comics [for those under 60, these were the Great Books of Western Civilization, in comic book form, all the rage in the 1960's].
The author starts off by saying that everything is becoming software, but there is no mention of Marc Andersson's famous article, “Why Software is Eating the World” (Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2011), and across the book I notice other inconsistencies. I conclude this is a book researched and written by staff to the signed author's general specifications. It is a good outline, and worth reading, but it is also disappointing. This is not the book that Michael Saylor could have and should have written. Having said that, I give the staff high marks for a clean intelligible coherent book good enough for the 80% that do not think about these topics very much.
The central premise of the book is that mobile plus social equals radical change; that application hand-helds (as opposed to cell phones) are hugely disruptive, and that if we have 5.3 billion with phones right now (out of 9 billion plus), imagine what happens when everyone has a cell phone.
