Recommended Reading
Let’s see…..
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Top Billing! Dr. Mark Drapeau -“Government 2.0: Rise of the Goverati”
Some dread excess Obamoptimism here but an interesting and thoughtful take on how the new White House crowd are digital natives and successfully assimilated digital immigrants. Then again the twitter page for the Obama administration has not exactly been a house of fire. Neither has the White House blog which continues to underwhelm.
CTOvision – “Foreign Spies Make Recession Worse and Steal Part of Our Future”
Updated trend of the old Soviet bloc desire to steal as much as possible through industrial espionage, something that goes back to the days of AMTORG – and yes, we still suck at stopping it.
The Telegraph – “CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US”
As long as we are on a CI kick today, maybe the easiest thing to do is to start social network mapping adherents of radical mosques for a strict scrutiny list regarding travel or funds transfer into the U.S. You want to attend services with a guy who preaches my murder and enslavement, fine, just don’t expect to come over here for a visit or to get an education or a job here or that we’ll easily let your relatives in either.
SEED – Blogging the Origin
Doing for Charles Darwin what Chicagoboyz is doing for Carl von Clausewitz . The Smithsonian also has What Darwin Didn’t Know up.
SEED x 2 Here’s something important to consider for all COIN and 4GW enthusiasts:
“A new study supports the controversial claim that people can be morally swayed by the state of their surroundings.”
Foreign Policy – Parag Khanna “The Road to Kabul Runs Through Beijing (and Tehran)”
Not endorsing but interesting. Good follow up on Nexon yesterday.
THANKS! to those who linked to my interview with Tom Barnett at SWJ last week, including Andrew Sullivan, FP’s This Week at War, HG’s World, Rethinking Security, Global Guerillas , MountainRunner…
TDAXP offers up the Hitler Downfall collection
Open the Future – Flunking Out
Like AE, Jamais Cascio is unimpressed with Singularity U.
That’s it!
February 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
While adherents of the Singularity strike me as secular copies of those fascinated with the Rapture, I don’t get OtF’s criticism. The humanities have done nothing to help human progress, in a concrete way. Why waste time studying them, if you want to create a better world?
February 9th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
"The humanities have done nothing to help human progress, in a concrete way. Why waste time studying them, if you want to create a better world?"
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The Renaissance would beg to differ with you Dan : )
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Agree with you on "Rapture" comment.