Stephen E. Arnold: A Fresh Look at Big Data & Big Data (-) Human Factor (+) Transformation (+) RECAP

A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …

Jean Lievens: Warren Karlenzig: Collective Intelligence–Cities as Global Intelligence Platform

Warren Karlenzig: Collective Intelligence–Cities as Global Intelligence Platform Social media and collaborative technologies–layered with smart systems combining geo-location data with human experience–will make cities the driving sustainability force in a dawning planetary era. Cities will anticipate new risks with rapid urban systems innovation based upon crowdsourcing, virtual and physical communities, and transparent markets sensitive to …

Review (Guest): Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species

Paul Hellyer 5.0 out of 5 stars Beams of Light from a Well-Respected Statesman September 18, 2010 By Gerald MacLennon Unlike our Asian counterparts, the West often fails to accord our wise elders the honor they deserve – the status they have earned by devoting their lives to love of, and service to humankind. Paul …

Paul C. Hoffman: Upcoming Classes on “The Art of Appreciating ~ the Courage to Receive”

The Art of Appreciating – The Courage to Receive • Do you have trouble letting in the good around you? • When someone says or does something nice to you, do you get all squirmy and suspiciously nervous? Do you uncontrollably and immediately go to standard cultural programming [“Deny. Minimize! Deflect!!”] even when there’s no …

Search: OSC M4IS2

Best searched for individually. OSC = Open Source Everything DuckDuckGo / “Open Source Everything” Google “Open Source Everything” source=phibetaiota M4IS2 = Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making DuckDuckGo / M4IS2 Google M4IS2 source=phibetaiota Phi Beta Iota Editorial Selections:

SchwartzReport: Tom Engelhardt — No Longer in Search of Enemies — We Have Created Them and Turned the World Against the USA

Here is a brilliant essay on the endless wars that enrich the few, and destroy the lives of many, and drain our treasury of the money we should be using to prepare our society for the world that is coming. We are destroying ourselves because we cannot mount the political will to demand life affirming …