2009 Arnold Google: The Digital Gutenberg

Robert Steele, the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, considers Stephen E. Arnold to be the single most professional analyst of emerging information technologies and their social meaning.  His “Google Triology” may well be the most significant body of work of practical significance not just to the information industry, but to civil liberties, capitalism, civil society, …

2009 Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else [Full Text Online for Google Translate]

Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace By ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS Today’s secret intelligence community costs the U.S. taxpayer over $65 billion a year, and yet, according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret), provides less than 4% of the decision support needed …

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Technology & Web 2.0 to 4.0

Technology & Web 2.0 to 4.0 Review: Avatars–Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) Review: Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs Review: Business Value of Computers Review: Complex Adaptive Systems–An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity) Review: Cyberwar 2.0–Myths, Mysteries & Reality Review: Cyberwar–Security, Strategy, and Conflict in the …