1992 Barlow (US) Information Wants to Be Free

John Perry Barlow is known for being the lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and with Mitch Kapor, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).  Howard Rheingold made his acceptance of our invitation to speak conditional on our giving John Perry Barlow time to speak as well, and the rest is history.  He nailed it.

1993 Shumpei Kumon (JP) From Wealth to Wisdom: A Change in the Social Paradigm

Howard Rheingold was a decade or two ahead of the secret world in understanding the essence of Japan in so far as information and communications and computing technologies and their implications for both indigenous social networking, and global interactions and impacts.  He brought this gentleman to our attention and flagged the below document as essential …

Robert Steele: Welcoming Remarks to OSS ’92

Steele, Robert. “Welcoming Remarks by Robert D. Steele, Host: Consumer Needs, Data Changes, Technology Changes, Organizational Changes, Future Vision & Issues,” McLean, VA: First International Symposium on National Security & National Competitiveness, Open Source Solutions, December 1, 1992. Full Text Below the Fold

1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)

“E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, and Intelligence” was inspired in part by Walter Truett Anderson’s 1987 book, To Govern Evolution: Further Adventures of the Political Animal, and accepted by Howard Rheingold, whose 1986 book, Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, was my first exposure to “intelligence” outside the secret bunker–my first realization …

Reference: 1986 CIA Artificial Intelligence Bibliography

It cost CIA $3000 to teach us the word “heuristics” also known as “rules of thumb.  Attempts to leverage expert & decision support systems heuristics, encoding specificity, and cognitive mapping decision making in foreign policy ultimately failed for two reasons: 1.  No over-arching authority able to force the Directorate of Operations (DO) to enter the …