The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Could Robert Gates Create a Smart Nation as Chancellor of the Republic? 5 stars – Real potential at the intersection of education, intelligence, and research American Herald Tribune, 3 July 2018
Data-Driven, Networked Urbanism by Rob Kitchin offers a a useful overview of the various critiques of smart cities. Abstract: For as long as data have been generated about cities various kinds of data-informed urbanism have been occurring. In this paper, I argue that a new era is presently unfolding wherein data-informed urbanism is increasingly being …
Robert, you are the originator of the concept of a Smart Nation, with your article in 1996 published in the Government Information Quarterly, entitled “Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information.” Quebec is a nation, recognized by Canada, with a distinct culture, a distinct geography, and perhaps a distinct future.
From concrete to telepathy: how to build future cities as if people mattered EXTRACT There are many issues of policy, culture, design and technology that we need to get right for this to happen, but the main objectives are clear: The data from city services should be made available as Open Data and through published “Application Programming …
Continue reading “RIck Robinson: Building Cities with Open Source Everything”
Google and Its Possible Really, Really Big Ambitions I read “Looking Past the Search Results: Google 2.0 Will Build Airports and Cities Says Report.” The “report” appears to be the work of an outfit doing business as “The Information.” The founder of The Information is Jessica E. Lessin. She was a Wall Street Journal reporter. …
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Google as Architect of Cities?”
9/11: CIA black operation murders Philip Marshall? (Wayne Madsen) BITCOIN: arrest of operators of two exchanges BOOK: Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict CHINA: annual urban exodus tracked by Baida CONGO: ambush of commander CONGO: situation worsening CYBER: cash registers – crime wave
CHINA: COIN strategy in Tibet and Xinjiang CITIZEN SCIENCE: charts horse chestnut tree pest spread CRIME: JP Morgan CRIME: Meltdown: The men who crashed the world DESIGN: award for Dutch innovation: the wingman FUKUSHIMA: new secrecy legislation INNOVATION: radiation detector in smartphone
