The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The following books are in line for review over this coming week, in the order in which they have been published or will be published. RELEASED: 13 February 2013. No reviews at Amazon. How have the intelligence services been forced to adapt to try and combat the threat of terrorism? In this gripping book, former …
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Paul Strassmann 5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves careful study–a powerful message about technology March 4, 1999 By Lou Agosta (lagosta@21stcentury.net) The main targets for Paul Strassmann’s unmasking of misconceptions about the business use of computers include the Gartner Group, advocates of Best Practices, and that mouth piece of computing vendors, the computing trade press …
Doug Rushkoff 5.0 out of 5 stars Rich Manifesto for Humanity — Hit Pause, Do NOT Let IT Fry Your Brain, March 21, 2013 In some ways this book picks up from Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway but it has its own structure …
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CIA’s Gus Hunt On Big Data: We ‘Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever’ NEW YORK — The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. VIDEO 28:30 Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO …
Singapore’s Lessons for an Unequal America By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ New York Times, 18 March 2013 Inequality has been rising in most countries around the world, but it has played out in different ways across countries and regions. The United States, it is increasingly recognized, has the sad distinction of being the most unequal advanced …
Opening World Bank Data with QCRI’s GeoTagger My colleagues and I at QCRI partnered with the World Bank several months ago to develop an automated GeoTagger platform to increase the transparency and accountability of international development projects by accelerating the process of opening key development and finance data. We are proud to launch the first version of the GeoTagger …
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The $10 cell phone has arrived – and with it, economic opportunity By Channtal Fleischfresser | March 18, 2013, 3:10 AM PDT On a recent trip to Shenzhen, China, a group of MIT students discovered that you can buy a cell phone there for as little as $10. While the cost of mobile phones has …
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