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Michel Bauwens: The New Rules of Innovation – Bottom-Up Solutions to Top-Down Problems

The New Rules Of Innovation: Bottom-Up Solutions To Top-Down Problems In his new book, Vijay Vaitheeswaran argues that we’re thinking about worldchanging innovation all wrong: It’s not going to come from where we expect it. Arnie Cooper www.fastcoexist.com, 19 March 2012 The world is currently standing “on the cusp of a post-industrial revolution.” So writes …

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Mini-Me: The Future of Intelligence is Your Dishwasher?

Huh? Marcus Aurelius:  The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will ‘transform’ surveillance Devices connected to internet leak information CIA director says these gadgets will ‘transform clandestine tradecraft’ Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers People ‘bug’ their own homes with web-connected devices DefDog:  CIA loves Internet of things… …

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Marcus Aurelius: State Department Moves to Fire Peter Van Buren Author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

For those of you with experience or interest in such things, State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS, long ago SY), has developed for itself a very negative reputation in personnel security arena. Through AFSA, American Foreign Service Association (I am not a member having never been a FSO), I have read numerous accounts of horror …

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