Yoda: Google Translates 27 Languages
Good, Google does (sometimes). Google Translate app adds 20 more languages By week’s end, the Android and iOS app will offer instant translation in a total of 27 languages.
Reflections on Peter Drucker from the Grave
#bigideas I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the …
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Berto Jongman: IDA on Global Coverage — Without Reference to Prior Art or the Real World
Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note. Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
Howard Rheingold: Meta-Collaboration
Wonderfully, this post addresses three subjects I track because I know they are important: metacognition and its role in infotention, augmented collective intelligence, and the relationship of human cooperation to social media. Meta-Collaboration: Thinking With Another Feeling the emotions of others, social acceptance, and cooperation are critical to our early development of the identity and …
Stephen E. Arnold: Elsevier Going Down….
Elsevier and Its Business Model May Be Ageing Fast If you need to conduct research and are not attached to a university or academic library, then you are going to get hit with huge subscription fees to have access to quality material. This is especially true for the scientific community, but on the Internet if …
Review: Change the Story, Change the Future – A Living Economy for a Living Earth
David Korten 5.0 out of 5 stars Brings Us Full Circle — Valuable as Remedial Education for All, June 27, 2015 David Korten has been one of my heroes and indirect mentors through his books for over a decade. His book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community resonated deeply with me, and I …
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Hans Kern Interviews Robert Steele for Rag ‘n Rock: World Brain II.0 or How We Should End Secrecy and Learn to Harness the Hive Mind
World Brain II.0 How We End Secrecy and Harness the Hive Mind Robert Steele is unusual for an American… he is clearly internationalist in his orientation. He has written a book that can bring us together in facing our greatest enemies: ignorance, poverty, and mistrust. Rear Admiral Hamit Gulemre Aybars, Turkish Navy (retired) A conversation …
