The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Midnight ROBERT STEELE, or for Latinos, Robert David STEELE Vivas, is the embodiment of Truth in our time. A former spy and the founder of the Open Source Intelligence movement in the 1980’s, he has morphed into the leading proponent for Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE), the focus of our show today. His …
Connecting everyone to the internet won’t solve the world’s development problems According to a new report from the World Bank, more than 40% of the global population now has internet access. On average, eight in ten people in the developing world own a mobile phone. Even in the poorest 20% of households this number is …
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Human Intelligence and Open Source Technologies Robert Steele on February 1, 2016 in SingularityWeblog The current fads Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) are hot current fads. Both technologies have been a long time in gestation. The ramp-up has taken decades. The current bet – one I do not agree with – is that …
Why Smart Cities still aren’t working for us after 20 years. And how we can fix them. (I was recently asked to give evidence to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development during the development of their report on Smart Cities and Infrastructure. This article is based on my presentation, which you …
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Davos: It’s Not Enough to do Less Bad (5 Tech and Impact Trends) Here are five key tech and social impact trends from this year’s Forum: It’s not enough to do less bad. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the way leaders will talk about tech. Impact bonds and pay-for-outcomes models will dominate global social sector …
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Good but incomplete. GLOBAL POLITICAL RISK The New Convergence Between Geopolitical and Vox Populi Risks, and Why It Matters Graphic and comment below the fold.
