The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This is about de-centralising the net, distributing the data to the periphery where it’s needed, rather than running everything through big data pipes and central servers… HTTP is obsolete. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web HTTP is broken. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia …
Crypto Enlightenment: A Social Theory of Blockchains Melanie Swan: There is something new and fundamental happening in the world which could be the start of the next enlightenment period. The core of this is shifting from centralized to decentralized models in all aspects of our lives, both individual and societally. . . . Blockchain technology …
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The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’ Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore. The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of …
Reflecting on Eric Schmidt’s idiocy of yesterday, and the failure of Google to render useful tools enhancing public understanding and power, I asked a few folks what business Google was in, and how we should interpret their introducing of Google Fiber to major cities. The answer is: Google is in the business of mass surveillance, …
Continue reading “Robert Steele: What Business Is Google In? Mass Surveillance. Period.”
You asked me to comment on “The Logic Problems That Will Eventually Pop the Bitcoin Bubble,” as published by Vanity Fair on 31 March 2013. My critique is that it is VERY old news. 2013. I was just getting into Bitcoins by then, and loosing my ability to walk. Can I counter the piece? No, …
ROBERT STEELE: I am interested in hearing from anyone who wishes to share sources and perspectives relevant to the below planned work that has been commissioned for a 2016 publication. I am especially interested in having one or more major information technology companies in this space subsidize several months of research. Title: “Augmented Human Intelligence …
ROBERT DAVID STEELE: Lee Iacocca wrote a fine book, Where have all the leaders gone? and the sadness is that we don’t produce leaders any more, only apparatchiks skilled at legalized crime. I was thinking yesterday that the next big leap is ethical from the agricultural era to the industrial era to the information era …
Continue reading “Robert David Steele & Robert James Becket — The Age of Ethics (Virtue) Has Begun”
