Robert Steele: Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0

Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 Can Open Source Evolutionary Cybernetics Leverage Distributed Human Intelligence While Advancing Artificial Intelligence? DOC (16 Pages): 20151018 Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 DOC (3 Pages): D3 Innovation Memorandum 2.1 (to VP, SecState, SecDef, D/OMB, A/USAID delivered 14 October 2015) SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-ACI2 ABSTRACT The information and intelligence (decision-support) domains have lost their …

Robert Steele: Open Source (Technologies) Agency

استخدام جوجل ترجمة للقراءة باللغة العربية 使用谷歌翻译在中国阅读 Использование Google Translate для чтения на русском языке Google Türkçe Oku Çevir kullanın SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/VP-OSA 8 Oct 2015 updated 8 Dec 2015 MEMORANDUM FOR  VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Michael Klare: Climate Change Tipping Points

Climate Change Tipping Points and the Question of Civilizational Survival Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science—and that should frighten us all. The latest reports from the prestigious and sober Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) make increasingly hair-raising reading, suggesting that the planet is approaching possible moments of irreversible …

Berto Jongman: CIA’s Digital Innovation…

CIA goes live with new cyber directorate, massive internal reorganization The DDI’s formation implies that the CIA is increasingly bent on securing 21st century relevance on the overall American spying landscape, where other agencies — namely the cyber- and electronic-surveillance-focused National Security Agency (NSA) — have emerged as dominant shapers of U.S. intelligence policy.

Sepp Hasslberger: Liquid Democracy Rising…

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 …

Review: Big Data, Little Data, No Data – Scholarship in the Networked World

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 …