OSINT Historic Contributions Directory (List)
Creating a Smart Nation–and a World Brain–demands the participation of all of the people all of the time.
Tom Atlee: Bacteria–and Human Intelligence
Bacteria — and the intelligence of individuals and collectives Collective intelligence is not an abstraction. It is a real-world emergent phenomenon — a phenomenon that ranges from collective stupidity to collective brilliance. It arises from interactions among entities in shared situations. Collective intelligence — of any quality — can just happen, or it can be …
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Howard Rheingold: Contemplative Computing (Kent Finley)
Contemplative Computing By Klint Finley / July 8, 2011 12:30 PM Last year when Nicholas Carr‘s book The Shallows hit the streets suggesting that the Internet was frying our brains (see our coverage) I asked what we could do to build a less brain damaging Internet. Since then I’ve been too, well, distracted to pursue …
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Mark Zuckerberg: What To Do Once People Are Connected
Mark Zuckerberg Social networking is at “an inflection point,” Zuckerberg said. “When you think about what social networking meant for the last five or seven years, since Facebook has been around, the narrative has mostly been around connecting people,” he said. “Until the last couple of years, most people really had open questions about whether …
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Howard Rheingold: Cooperation Theory
Introduction to Cooperation Theory A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter to introduce the fundamentals of an interdisciplinary study of cooperation: social dilemmas, institutions for collective action, the commons, evolution of cooperation, technologies of cooperation, and cooperative arrangements in biology from cells to ecosystems. …
Event: 3 Aug DC DNI IARPA The OSINT Frontier…
Proposers’ Day Notice for the IARPA Open Source Indicators (OSI) Program Solicitation Number: IARPA-BAA-11-11(pd) Agency: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Office: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Location: IARPA1 Solicitation Number: IARPA-BAA-11-11(pd) Notice Type: Presolicitation Synopsis: Added: Jul 01, 2011 2:52 pm Complete information below the line.
Bandwidth Needs, Bandwidth Options
Part I Internet prime mover Vint Cerf echoes what I’ve been hearing from other architects of the TCP/IP network: we should focus on building much fatter pipes, and get away from the enforced/legacy scarcity and build gigabit broadband networks. Nothing here about the cost of providing gigabit access, nothing here about the fact that much …
