Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

CYBER: Cyber’s Most Wanted DEFENSE: Iranian Mass Production of Coastal Submarines OPEN: interview With FBI Profiler of Psychopaths, Mary Ellen O’Toole OPEN: Italy Rise of Pitchfork Populists (USA Next?) OPEN: Lies About Singularity OPEN:  Missing Links: Access to Papers’ Raw Data Plummets by 17% Each Year OPEN: NSA Mismanagement, NSA Retaliation Against Whistleblowers (Kirb Wiebe) …

Jean Lievens: Diana Filippova from Paris – Collective Intelligence or Digital Total War?

Of cooperation between men and machine For a peer-to-peer approach to collective intelligence It’s eight a.m. on a Monday morning in 2007. In the Arcueil examination centre, a thousand heads crane with difficulty over wooden desks that are damaged by pens scratching across thin sheets of paper. Railway lines surround the enclave; trains make the …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

2014 Cyber-Security Predictions [8 certain mistakes] FBI’s Threat Statement to Congress Phi Beta Iota: Nothing on financial crime (Wall Street), crimes against humanity (pedophilia), or traitors among us.  FBI continues to serve as the protective agency for those committing high crimes and misdemeanors against the public interest. GAO: TSA Program Not Effective HAMR: Increasing Disk …

Berto Jongman: Richard Yonck on Connecting with Our Connected World — the Coming Explosion of Human Consicousness in Context of an Internet of Things

Connecting with Our Connected World Richard Yonck The Futurist, November-December 2013 We can only really communicate with a tiny fraction of our personal and global environment. But our world and our experience of it are poised to change dramatically as everything becomes increasingly interconnected. Here’s what we can expect in the coming era of the …

Berto Jongman: Scientists Decide to Create Replacement Human, Ignore High-Level Threats to Humanity

Blind science?  Or unethical science? 2045: A New Era for Humanity Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, 4 June 2013 In February of 2012 the first Global Future 2045 Congress was held in Moscow. There, over 50 world leading scientists from multiple disciplines met to develop a strategy for the future development of humankind. One …

Anthony Judge: Law and Order vs. Lore and Orders?

Law and Order vs. Lore and Orders? Imagining otherwise the forceful engagement of singularity with plurality Introduction Varieties of order as a mutually challenging array Varieties of law as a mutually challenging array Psychosocial implications: “disorder” or “different drummer” Lore vs. Law: a homophonic challenge in a homophobic society? Rule of Law vs. Rule of …