WIRED contributor Robert Wright on why the government needs to stop Google from monopolizing AI. "...Google must be stopped. The race to dominate the personal AI space—to build the artificial intelligence that each of us will use as an all-purpose digital assistant—is closer to being over than most people realize. And Google is poised to win. And if ever there was a business that we can’t let any one company dominate, it’s AI. Using the government’s antitrust powers in new ways to stave off monopoly, and preserve a healthy oligopoly, is the only way to keep humankind from buying a one-way ticket to the Matrix."
16 nov 2013 Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani August 1st--4th, 2013 Rio Hotel & Casino * Las Vegas, Nevada. at ca 15 min. "... cyber is a potential wmd" "...we look to you to help produce more secure systems... and policies ... to disrupt those who seal intellectual property... need you, the good hackers of Def Con" ...".. you have the three branches of government overseeing it [the surveillance] ... it came after after 9/11... when we saw the terrorists coming..." ca 25 min. Q. from the public abt the lies abt wmd in Iraq
23 October 2013 By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Brazilian Minister of Communications Paolo Bernado Silva, during the opening session of this week’s 8th Internet Governance Forum in Bali, Indonesia, announced that the goal of the Internet Governance Summit in Brazil next spring will be to find a new model for internet governance.
Tikki Pang & Laurie Garrett The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency. To ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms.
"Everything is dying," a woman said as the town hall meeting was finally coming to a close. "How can you honestly tell us that our Gulf is resilient and will bounce back? Because not one of you up here has a hint as to what is going to happen to our Gulf.
Nicklas Lundblads notationer inför ett Hanaholmsseminarium, febr 2010. minne, sammanhållning "det goda arbetet med att bygga en gemensam nordisk upplevelse "
Walden Bello:" Late capitalism has an irreversible destructive logic. Instead of engaging in the impossible task of humanizing a failed globalist project, the urgent challenge facing us is managing the retreat from globalization so that it does not provok
Sweden will soon hold the Stockholm Internet Forum to discuss global development and global surveillance. The forum will open on 26 May and will be held in the famed Stadshuset, site of the annual Nobel banquet. The motto of the conference will be 'Internet Freedom for Global Development'.