The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Library of Utopia Google’s ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed? By Nicholas Carr on MIT Tecnology Review, April 25, 2012 In his 1938 book World Brain, H.G. …
Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT: 2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …
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20 Coolest Augmented Reality Experiments in Education So Far 4 Ways Augmented Reality is Changing Education Augmented reality is exactly what the name implies — a medium through which the known world fuses with current technology to create a uniquely blended interactive experience. While still more or less a nascent entity in the frequently Luddite …
Bill Bradley 3.0 out of 5 stars Shallow Book, Old Think, He Quit the Fight to Join the Worst of the Wall Street Manipulators,November 15, 2012 This book makes me very angry. My step-father and I both believed in Bill Bradley a decade ago, and today I feel about him the way I feel about …
The most important education technology in 200 years Kurzweil, November 3, 2012 Education is about to change dramatically, says Anant Agarwal, who heads edX, a $60 million MIT-Harvard effort to stream a college education over the Web, free, with plans to teach a billion students, Technology Review reports. “Massive open online courses,” or MOOCs, offered by new …
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Free, Force Is. Free, Education Should Be. Information wants to be free, but does education? By Dominic Basulto Washington Post, 31 October 2012 EXTRACT It all seems doable enough that Stanford president John Hennessy came out this year and said that it’s not a matter of if, but when, online higher education becomes free. And …
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Global warming is normal, not an imminent threat. Global warming, also known as climate change, is a tiny part of Environmental Degradation, top level threat #3 out of ten according to the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change of the United Nations. Global warming is a direct result of common ignorance, corporate greed, and …
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