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Reference: UK MoD Futures

Berto Jongman recommends… The Future Strategic Context for Defence (UK 2007) Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future (UK Guardian 9 Apr 2007) Phi Beta Iota: C4I is the only “revolutionary” technology–Michael O’Hanlon said it first inTechnological Change and the Future of Warfare (2000).  Other highlights: private sector, not defense, is …

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Worth A Look: System Vulnerability Approach to Climate Change

Berto Jongman Recommends: Impacts of Climate Change: A System Vulnerability Approach (2007) By Nils Gilman, Peter Schwartz, Doug Randall Over the past two decades, and especially in the last few years, climate change has become one of the most heavily researched subjects in science. Yet climate change impact studies remain at the low end of …

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Worth a Look: Big Think Experts

With a tip of the hat to Berto Jongman, we have added Big Think Experts to our Professional Sites, and recommend them. “Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself” — Josiah Royce

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Graphic: Global Threats to Local Survival (1990′s)

This graphic was created after being inspired by Berto Jongman’s brilliant World Conflict & Human Rights Map, a document that went out of creation in 2003 after he joined his national intelligence service.  His contribution is sorely missing and much needed again, only with an expansion to respect the profound wisdom contained in the Report …

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