Anthony Judge: Beware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security! Be where the Four Hoarsemen of the Apocalypse are not?

Beware of Legality, Accountability, Marketability, Security! Be where the Four Hoarsemen of the Apocalypse are not? Introduction Being wary of “legality” Being wary of “accountability” Being wary of “marketability” Being wary of “security” Systemic implications of “horsemen” and “hoarsemen” and correspondences between them Being wary of the Four Hoarsemen acting together Being where and how …

Reflections: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence 2.0

Citation:  Robert David STEELE Vivas, “The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Concepts & Doctrine? Implications for Human & Open Source Intelligence,” Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog (12 December 2012). For Part II See:  2012 Robert Steele: The Human Factor & The Human Environment: Contextual Trust for Sources & Methods UPDATE 16 Dec 2012:  …

Rickard Falkvinge: Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars

Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars Infrastructure:  The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth. This is the …

SmartPlanet: 4 Reasons Disruptive Innovation Fails – The Big One: Tyranny Represses Technology

Four reasons why meaningful, disruptive innovation fails By Andrew Nusca | October 25, 2012 “Why can’t we solve big problems?” asks Jason Pontin in MIT’s Technology Review. Technologist Paul Carr recently described the term disruption as “the faddish Silicon Valley concept which essentially boils down to, “let us do whatever we want, otherwise we’ll bully …

SmartPlanet: Chronicling Latin America’s deforestation, leaf by leaf

Chronicling Latin America’s deforestation, leaf by leaf By Ian Mount | August 24, 2012, 3:00 AM PDT BUENOS AIRES–There may be nothing more depressing than watching a deforestation map in real time, knowing that each time a green pixel turns red, the corresponding square of earth has been denuded of trees. That must make the folks …