The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
emergent by design 10 Projects Moving Us Towards a Superfluid Economy March 22, 2011 What is the future of money? And not just money, but currencies in general – from virtual currencies to timebanks to social currencies based around trust, identity, reputation, expertise and relationships. And not just currencies, a.k.a. tools that are supposed to represent …
Research and Markets: Global Trends 2010 Trend Report: Shapers & Influencers – Academic Institutions May 2010 newly offered 18 March 2011 Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global Trends 2010 Trend Report: Shapers & Influencers – Academic Institutions” report to their offering. The world’s next generation of young adults will not only …
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I am cheerfully optimistic that truth and trust will be the common currency of the 21st Century. This effort out of Hungary offers useful reflections on the degree to which privacy and anonymnity are necessary to “out” the old sovereignty and achieve a new sovereignty of the whole. In Focus/data sovereignty Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy …
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GM Suspends Shreveport Truck Output on Japan Parts Shortage Bloomberg March 17, 2011, 4:13 PM EDT By Craig Trudell March 17 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will suspend production at its Shreveport Assembly in Louisiana for the week of March 21 because of a parts shortage resulting from the crisis in …
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OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within Libya and along the …
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Phi Beta Iota: The below commentary is so spectacularly intelligent and concise we are cross-posting it from Quora, with a link to the original project and multiple questions as the end of the observations. Kari O’Brien, Digital Strategist The biggest threat to Facebook is innovation. We forget before there was Facebook, there was Friendster, there …
Bahrain, Libya, and related reactions. Phi Beta Iota: The ineptitude of the Western governments will go down in history. What started as a public uprising against dictators, with Muslim and Christian, Sunni and Shi’ite standing shoulder to shoulder, has now been flipped to military interim governments and a surge of Iranian proxies against Sunni allies …
