Berto Jongman: Civilization Collapse by 2050?

Human civilisation could end by 2050 as experts warn climate change will cause ecological collapse followed by disease pandemics, nuclear war and lethal heatwaves Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration Climate change near-to-mid-term threat to civilisation Business-as-usual emissions = catastrophic future Climate tipping points that could lead to an uninhabitable Earth

Review: Augmented Intelligence – Smart Systems and the Future of Work and Learning

Daniel Araya (editor) 5 Stars Best Available Overview, Most “Experts” Still in Denial Augmented Intelligence is the new meme that goes beyond Collective Intelligence. The editor has done the best possible job of collecting inputs from top people, a few of whom I know such as Jim Spohrer, and I recommend the book without reservation. …

Stephen E. Arnold: Seriously Stupid at Yale — Mobile Search vs. Library Stacks

Books and Learning: Go Mobile, Stay Clueless I read “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper.” The main idea is that today’s students are not using libraries to locate books which are then read, thought about, and analyzed in order to: Learn Find useful facts Exploit serendipity Figure out which source or sources …

Berto Jongman: FBI Crisis — Playing Catch-Up on Cyber

Identity crisis: FBI plays catch-up as cyberthreats escalate Now “every field office has a cyber squad” modeled after lessons learned fighting terrorism, said Ugoretz, speaking earlier this year at a conference in Sea Island, Ga. Some field offices are being assigned as leads for specific attacks or threat actors, she said. There is also a …