John Robb: Resilient Curiosity, Cities Under Seige

LINKS: August, 31 2011 Some items of interest: Biocurious is a biohackerspace opening in Sunnyvale. Local software, hardware, and bio labs that connect to a global, R&D effort via online networks. A neighborhood location where professionals (formally educated) and amateurs (in the best sense of the word) can work together on building new things and …

John Robb: Free Online Open Source Education + RECAP

JOURNAL: Open Source Education A couple of years back I asked (in the article “Industrial Education” which is worth a read): “An Ivy League Education for less than $20 a month.  Why not?” At the time there were only a smattering of course materials online.  That’s changing.  It’s coming.  Here’s an example of a class that …

Graphic: Mike Bloomberg Tests Cyber-Perceptions

Source Phi Beta Iota:  He certainly looks Presidential.  Unfortunately, he’s also at 2 strikes between the inauthentic manipulators that concocted NO LABELS and the hedge-fund slight-of-hand experts behind Americans Elect.  We like Mike Bloomberg.  If he can connect to reality and learn from the collective intelligence/open space communities, he could and should be President.  Seven …

Review: The Long Twentieth Century – Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Giovanni Arrighi 4.0 out of 5 stars Adding Links In Support of Review by Joseph Martin,August 10, 2011 This is how your review will appear: 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars Adding Links In Support of Review by Joseph Martin,August 10, 2011 By Robert D. Steele (Oakton, …