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Review (Guest): Alone Together — Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle 4.0 out of 5 stars Whoa! Let’s not get carried away, February 6, 2011 By Martin Zook “Martin Zook” (Virginia) – See all my reviews There is much insight to be gained about our relationship with digital technology in reading Alone Together…but it’s equally informative to consider some of what’s not covered in …
Nuclear/Climate Change: CLOSED 17 May 2011
ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Japan-Update 16 May 2011 ALL: Study: Seaports unready for climate change CANADA: Climate change threatens arctic coastlines CHINA: China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution EUROPE-SPAIN: Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate GERMANY-JAPAN-USA: Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables INDIA: Manmohan Singh takes stock of country’s …
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Panarchy-Not Anarchy-Future of Global Governance
Panarchy is “a useful way of thinking about cross-scale dynamics in complex adaptive systems.” Source Panarchy, in modern terms, is both an emerging theory of local to global relations spanning all current disciplines (e.g. economics, political science, sociology), and a public intelligence concept that posits non-violent collective intelligence, with access to all true cost information, …
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Four Time Bombs Centered on Wall Street
March 1, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EST Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street Commentary: Too late to jail bank CEOs; only revolution will succeed By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch Phi Beta Iota: Highlights include extimate that US is 44 trillion in debt; that nothing and Administration does will stop Wall Street–this is now …
Review: Reality Is Broken–Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
Jane McGonigal 6 Star for Concept–Ignores Past Pioneers–Energizes Us All February 28, 2011 I took the time to read all of the reviews to date, and was reminded again of the chasm between those who understand technology and its possibilities, and those who do not. Being among the latter, in part because I am a …
CURVEBALL: The Interview + Integrity RECAP
Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi let imagination run wild and became main source for Colin Powell’s case for war in 2003 Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war Admissions vindicate CIA’s former Europe chief Read full article… Phi Beta Iota: The story …
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