Berto Jongman: Internet Service Providers Over Five Years Out of Date on Routers, Time to Go Directly to Dark Fiber and Open Spectrum

Is the internet ‘full’ and going to shut down? Reports state that that the internet is running out of space – but is this really a problem, and do we have to worry about it? Reports this week have claimed that the internet is in danger of becoming “full” because the number of internet connections …

Tom Atlee: Factors Supporting Collective Stupidity, Collective Guesstimation, Collective Intelligence, and Collective Wisdom

Factors that support collective intelligence and wisdom Many factors play a role in how collectively intelligent or wise a group, system, or situation is. Here I offer tentative lists of factors that enhance collective stupidity, collective guesstimations (the “wisdom of crowds” phenomenon), collective intelligence, and collective wisdom. I invite readers to add their own thoughts …

Robert Steele: Stephen Draper on Intelligence in Complex Environments, with Comment

Intelligence in Complex Environments by Stephen Draper Small Wars Journal, 1 August 2014 Four years into the United States military’s effort to counter the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa its leader, Joseph Kony, remains elusive. This certainly isn’t for lack of effort or resources. One hundred Special Forces advisors, a robust command and control …

Owl: Ebola Eugenics, Ebola Profits, Ebola Contagion at US Summit?

Ebola: Has the Great Cull Begun Using the 21rst Century’s Spanish Flu? In a recent post that Wayne Madsen has since removed, he answered this question affirmatively – that Ebola is the chosen agent by the Elite to achieve their population reductions goals. Even if one has doubts about such a theory, everything expressed in …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Implodes, Yahoo & Google Both is Jeopardy

What Most Search Vendors Cannot Pull Off I recently submitted an Information Today column that reported about Antidot’s tactical play to enter the US market. One of the fact checkers for the write up alerted me that most of the companies I identified were unknown to US readers. Test yourself. How many of these firms …