The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Top Ten P2P Trends of 2014 1. Reaching of the tipping point for (distributed) renewable energy 2. The rise of open cooperatives and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions 3. The emergence of cryptoledger applications and a crypto-currency for the commons 4. Cities and Countries of the Commons
Open Cooperativism for the P2P Age Our recommendations for the new era of open cooperativism are: 1. That coops need to be statutorily (internally) oriented towards the common good 2. That coops need to have governance models including all stakeholders
Robert, you are the originator of the concept of a Smart Nation, with your article in 1996 published in the Government Information Quarterly, entitled “Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information.” Quebec is a nation, recognized by Canada, with a distinct culture, a distinct geography, and perhaps a distinct future.
2014 ANSWERS Robert Steele to Richard Olivier of Findhorn on Leadership for the 21st Century • What do 21st century leaders need to know and who do they need to be? • How can we develop these capacities? • What, on a systemic level, is blocking the needed leadership evolution? • What is missing from …
U_8th Annual SMA Conference 2014 Final-1 Panel 2, Damron–Big_Data_Open_Source_EUCOM Panel 5, IARPA OSI brief Oct 2014 Panel 5, Neuro Big Data GIORDANO final OCT 2014 Final Survey Results The Other Stuff (Less Noteworthy)
Artificial Intelligence: Duh? What? I have been following the “AI will kill us”, the landscape of machine intelligence craziness, and “Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat—Yet.” The most recent big thinking on this subject appears in the Wall Street Journal, an organization in need of any type of intelligence: Machine, managerial, fiscal, online, and sci-fi. Harsh? …
Another Good Enough Challenge to Proprietary Enterprise Search The protestations of the enterprise search vendors in hock for tens of millions to venture funders will get louder. The argument is that proprietary search solutions are just better. Navigate to “Postgres Full-Text Search Is Good Enough!” This has been the mantra of some of the European …
