Search Results for “commons” – Page 89

2010/12/192010/12/19

Your Apps Are Watching You…AND Reporting Intimate Details Without Your Consent…

Your Apps Are Watching You A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Wall Street Journal, Sunday, December 18, 2010 Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the …

Continue reading “Your Apps Are Watching You…AND Reporting Intimate Details Without Your Consent…”

2010/12/182010/12/18

Reference: Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review

Phi Beta Iota: The US Government continues to be chaotic in part because its civilian leaders simply do not know what they do not know. They have the best of intentions, but have been promoted into a new world far removed from the world imprinted on them in their formative years. There are four ways …

Continue reading “Reference: Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review”

2010/11/192010/11/19

Worth a Look: History of the Internet

A great adjustment in human affairs is underway. Political, commercial and cultural life is changing from the centralized, hierarchical and standardized structures of the industrial age to something radically different: the economy of the emerging digital era. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet …

Continue reading “Worth a Look: History of the Internet”

2010/11/142010/11/14

Reference: Changing the Game II

Speaking of Tom’s work … This morning I stumbled across a podcast, which includes the audio from a TV interview I did with Tom in the year 2000. The podcast is from Jarrett Sanchez’ NEXT STEP, a podcast partially inspired by Tom’s work. Tom was at least fifteen years ahead of the times in 2000 …

Continue reading “Reference: Changing the Game II”

2010/11/042010/11/04

Reference: 8 Populations, 4 Methods

Robert David Steele Serial pioneer, hacking humanity… Posted: November 2, 2010 04:34 PM 8 Populations, 4 Methods Minister-Mentor Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has said that demography, not democracy, is the defining element of the future, and I agree with him. This is important for two reasons: First, if the projected population explosions occur in …

Continue reading “Reference: 8 Populations, 4 Methods”

2010/11/022010/11/02

Reference: Water, Earth, and We

Our Commons Future is Already Here A stirring call to unite the environmental and global justice movement from Maude Barlow By Maude Barlow Maude Barlow gave this stirring plenary speech, full of hope even in the face of ecological disasters, to the Environmental Grantmakers Association annual retreat in Pacific Grove, California. Barlow, a former UN …

Continue reading “Reference: Water, Earth, and We”

2010/11/012010/11/01

Reference: 12 Core Policy Domains

Robert David Steele Serial pioneer, hacking humanity… Posted: October 27, 2010 05:16 PM 12 Core Policy Domains For those seeing this Blog for the first time, this is the 12th in a 24-part series appointing a Virtual Cabinet and creating a balanced sane intelligence-driven budget as a baseline for evaluating any candidate for public office. …

Continue reading “Reference: 12 Core Policy Domains”