The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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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Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Saving The tide has clearly turned against the techno-financial paradigm that disregards natural capital costs and exploits the 99% in favor of the 1%. Even a few billionaires have figured this out. Time, however, is not on our side, nor is truth easy to find in today’s severely corrupt information environment where all …
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This is about de-centralising the net, distributing the data to the periphery where it’s needed, rather than running everything through big data pipes and central servers… HTTP is obsolete. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web HTTP is broken. It’s time for the distributed, permanent web. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia …
A new, less complicated method of purifying water of salt and contaminants… could become very useful. Research team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water Now a team at MIT has come up with an innovative approach that, unlike most traditional desalination systems, does not separate ions or water molecules with filters, which can …
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Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused …
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Aging porn stars….too funny. Spy Agencies Are Like Old-School Porn — But That’s Changing By Jennifer Peters at VICE.com EXTRACT The traditional intelligence agencies are a lot like the old-school porn industry: they’re still trying to make and sell porn like it’s 1979, even though a lot of what they’re selling is just hanging out …
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