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Intelligence for Earth: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability--connecting all five billion poor to create infinite wealth, complete transparency, a prosperous world at peace. Free online.

An idea worth spreading

Priority One: free cell phone access for all, to harness the one inexhaustible resource we have. OpenBTS and OpenMoko are a good start, but need call centers and global networks able to educate the five billion poor one cell call at a time--that creates scalable transparency and truth that creates trust and wealth, in the process eradicating corruption and waste.

Priority Two: creating a Strategic Analytic Model (ten high level threats to humanity, twelve core policies from Agriculture to Water, eight demographics, five methods) so as to create a Global Range of Gifts Table down to the individual level that allows a global sparse matrix that connects the one billion rich to the five billion poor at the item level of aid--cut out the intermediaries almost completely, all assistance to be 100% transparent in real time.

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Pitching Sir Richard Branson (or anyone else) on being first to offer OpenBTS and OpenMoko to the five billion poor, along with call centers that comprise, in the aggregate, world brain & global game.

People don't know that I'm good at

Humility--took time to learn collective intelligence is superior to top-down command & control intelligence. After years of teaching 66+ governments, am going with the flow away from government.

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  A comment on Conversation: Will or Can "Open Hardware" replace Capitalism, or at least be the leading drive for people to continue living instead of making just money?

  Jul 29 2012: The short answer is NO but the long answer is YES. Just change Open Hardware to Open Source Everything. What people are just starting to realize is that all the Opens are isolated from one another. When you demand Open Access, Open Cloud, Open Data, Open Government, Open Meetings, Open Records, and Open Standards, and you implement not just Open Software and Open Hardware but also OpenBTS and Open Spectrum, now you have a revolution, a real transformation. I am about to post a piece I am doing for Open Innovation site, making this point. Your question has been included in tonight's Open Source Everything Highlights, the short URL to the stack is http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL. My new inexpensive pocketbook (Amazon recommended), THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust, makes this case. The short URL to both free stuff and online ordering options is http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele.

• A comment on Conversation: Is it possible the unrest which appears to be political in so many parts of the world is really a postive social and/or spiritual shift?

  Feb 22 2011: Tunisia and Egypt reacquainted the public with their inherent power--one commentator on Libya said that "the wall of fear" had come down. Yes, 2012 is in my view the Year of Awakening, and it might even reach the US. Here are three books on the power of the people that have impressed me very much:
  
  Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2002/07/the-power-of-the-powerless-citizens-against-the-state-in-central-eastern-europe/
  
  Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Repress
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2007/09/a-power-governments-cannot-suppress/
  
  Jonathan Schell, Unconquerable World
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2003/09/the-unconquerable-world-power-nonviolence-and-the-will-of-the-people/
  
  Right now many individuals are working on an Autonomous Internet, you can see the first 33 links at Phi Beta Iota here:
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/autonomous-internet/
  
  Once they are all connected (2 billion are, 3 billion to go), the Collective Intelligence and Panarchy will come into play. OpenBTS is going to be the key that unlocks the power of the public to think and to create infinite wealth. The positive comes later--first, Open Source Insurgency is about no more corruption and the outing of leaders who have shaped totally corrupt governments--that includes the government of the United States and the two-party tyranny that sold us all out to Wall Street. IMHO.

• A comment on Conversation: Is permaculture a feasible alternative to traditional agriculture?

  Feb 19 2011: Absolutely. Four books that support your view are these (summary reviews):
  
  Review: Priority One–Together We Can Beat Global Warming
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2007/03/priority-one-together-we-can-beat-global-warming/
  
  Review: Permaculture–Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2007/08/permaculture-principles-and-pathways-beyond-sustainability/
  
  Review: 1491–New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2008/01/1491-new-revelations-of-the-americas-before-columbus/
  
  Review: Acts of God–The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2008/04/acts-of-god-the-unnatural-history-of-natural-disaster-in-america/
  
  WATER is going to drive the world toward permaculture and prime design of our interactions with environment. Here is a reference to various reviews of books I read for a UNESCO water project.
  
  Reference: WATER–Soul of the Earth, Mirror of Our Collective Souls
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/01/reference-water-soul-of-the-earth-mirror-of-our-collective-souls/
  
  I am especially impressed by the knowledge that ancient indigenous cultures developed on permaculture including within the Amazon, that's one of the things that got me interested in harvesting all that knowledge before the modern world kills their cultural heritage.

• A comment on Conversation: Culture in the age of the Internet

  Feb 19 2011: I've read all the comments. All helpful. In the English language, at least, I believe that Will and Ariel Durant should have the last word. Below are links to the summaries of just two of their works that I most admire, and one quote.
  
  Review: Philosophy and the Social Problem–The Annotated Edition
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2008/10/philosophy-and-the-social-problem-the-annotated-edition/
  
  Review: The Lessons of History
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2004/01/the-lessons-of-history/
  
  QUOTE from latter: They end with “the only lasting revolution is in the mind of man.” In other words, technology is not a substitute for thinking by humans.
  
  Culture is most precious for its ability to sustain a diversity of world experience IMHO. Every language that dies is a culture that dies. Just as with the other species, we are killing off what could be our most precious resource, indigenous cultures with a historical memory of man-nature co-creation and co-relation that we desperately need to restore.

• A reply on Conversation: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?

  Feb 19 2011: See services science as developed by Jim Spohrer of IBM and others, and intelligence science, which has been created at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, but is not practiced yet.
  
  Journal: Free to the Public is new Services Science
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/11/journal-free-to-the-public-is-the-new-foundation-for-services-science/
  
  A Science of Intelligence Qua Decision-Support?
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/a-science-of-intelligence-qua-decision-support/
  
  The "money" is the infinite wealth, both tangible and intangible, that results. IMHO.

• A reply on Conversation: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?

  Feb 19 2011: To which I would add:
  
  a) You nailed it with Out of Control, a hugely important book very badly marketed
  
  b) Also compassion, empathy, teamwork, the return of the arts and finally, we earn our way out of quarentine and get to play in the inter-galactic sandbox.
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  A reply on Conversation: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?

  Feb 19 2011: Right. The correct answer is ALWAYS "some of everything."

• A reply on Conversation: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?

  Feb 19 2011: The best short story ever for me in relation to this theme was Isaac Asimov's on how everyone took a test at 18 to see which of the machines they would serve, and the "stupid" disappeared. When one such "stupid" person woke up, he was on the moon, where all of the programmers were kept secretly to avoid busting the myth of the man-machine complex. Two of my book reviews summarize competing schools of thought:
  
  Review: The Singularity Is Near–When Humans Transcend Biology (Hardcover)
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2009/01/?p=8142
  
  Review: Radical Evolution–The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human (Hardcover)
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2009/01/?p=8231
  
  For broader coverage, see;
  
  Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Technology & Web 2.0 to 4.0
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2009/01/worth-a-look-book-reviews-on-technology-web-2-0-to-4-0/
  
  Worth a Look: Book Reviews on the War on Science
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2008/07/worth-a-look-book-reviews-on-the-war-on-science/

• A reply on Conversation: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?

  Feb 19 2011: I believe you have touched on the heart of the matter. Bravo. Diversity is hugely important, but crowds are mobs absent some structure (such as a strategic analytic model that makes it easy for those who wish to focus on poverty to focus BUT ensuring that everyone interested in poverty is connected--right now crowdsourcing is all over the lot. You might like my graphic on open source everything, with the open source tri-fecta being Open Spectrum including OpenBTS, Free/Open Source Software, and Open Source Intelligence.
  
  Graphic: Open Everything
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/09/2009/10/graphic-open-everything/
  
  However, after twenty years focused on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) I have realized I have the cart before the horse, and that connecting the five billion poor with OpenBTS etc is Phase One. My short posting on the three phases toward a World Brain and Global Game can be found at this URL:
  
  Strategic Phasing Toward World Brain & Global Game
  http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/strategic-phasing-toward-world-brain-global-game/

• A reply on Conversation: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized?

  Feb 19 2011: In support of your point, I am told that several endeavors offering chiropractic services for a fee were losing money, but when they started offering the service free, asking for donations based on out-going good feeling, they actually increased their revenue against their former billing schedule.