The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How the Internet of everything will change the world From the Internet of Things (IoT), where we are today, we are just beginning to enter a new realm: the Internet of Everything (IoE), where things will gain context awareness, increased processing power, and greater sensing abilities, says Cisco in their blog. Add people and information …
Public release date: 2-Nov-2012 . Contact: Evan Nowell . egn2109@columbia.edu . Columbia Business School Building small: In many industries, economies of size is shifting to economies of numbers NEW YORK — November 2, 2012 — For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power …
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Reference: National Intelligence Program (NIP) Does not include the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) that is between $30 and $50 billion a year.
Study Explodes the Myth of Internet-Based Information Overload The key differentiator between those who feel overwhelmened by the volume of information available today and those who feel empowered and enthusiastic appears to be….know-how. –Howard From socialmediatoday.com – September 18, 12:41 PM “But now, there’s proof that all this worry about information overload, message meltdown and …
Eric Beerbohm is assistant professor of government and social studies and director of graduate fellowships for the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. “Are citizens in a democracy complicit in the injustices perpetrated by a state that acts in their name? Yes they are, argues Eric Beerbohm. In Our Name is a major statement …
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Google’s data mining raises questions of national security The ability of any company to ‘mine the mosaic’ of personal data has consequences far beyond individuals’ privacy Bryan Cunningham guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 2012 An imminent report on an emerging threat to individual privacy to be issued by the European data protection authorities raises even more …
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Escaping Excessive Dependence on Technical Intelligence Speaking at the GEOINT 2012 Symposium (09 October), Director of National Intelligence (DNI) General James Clapper (USAF ret.) argued that the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other U.S. citizens in Benghazi, Libya caught the U.S. by surprise because the attacks did not “emit or discuss …
