The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Political decision-making by elected representatives is far removed from those who go to the election booth once every four or five years. Liquid democracy uses the internet to reduce the distance between citizens and decision makers… Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician Liquid Democracy is one of the boldest contemporary innovations …
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Christine L. Borgman 5 Stars Major Contribution with Some Oversights This book is extremely well-developed and and a major contribution, not least because it it one of the best explorations of information ecologies that are vastly more intricate and cover vastly more time, energy, and locational space, than most realize. It was recommended to me …
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Grading Gerasimov: Evaluating Russian Nonlinear War Through Modern Chinese Doctrine Victor R. Morris in Small Wars Journal, 17 September 2015 Unrestricted war is a war that surpasses all boundaries and restrictions. It takes nonmilitary forms and military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war of the future. -Colonel Qiao Liang …
How the Internet’s Collective Human Intelligence Could Outsmart AI Collective intelligence is the opposite of artificial intelligence My idea is to use a universal categorization system that would be very supple like natural language; you can say anything you want to describe a document. You are not obliged by any kind of rule to describe …
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9 Things We Can Accomplish If We Re-Directed our Resources from War Here are 9 Things That Could Positively Affect the World if we Re-Directed our Resources from the War Machine: List and links below the fold — an eye-opener.
The internet is slipping away into commercial control. Here is an event to explore what are the alternatives for a people-owned internet … Platform Cooperativism A coming-out party for the cooperative Internet On November 13 and 14, the New School in New York City will host a coming-out party for the cooperative Internet, built of …
The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which seek to end poverty and hunger while creating sustainable societies, look like great news at first glance. But a report circulated to UN officials argues that the entire SDG process has been “fundamentally compromised” by powerful corporations with …
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