On 6/28/14 12:03 PM, Stephen Guerin
wrote:
I'm surprised his work hasn't been discussed here before (or more
likely I just missed it):
We are a smart people today, but a dumb nation. Our
national security and our national attractiveness as a site
for international investment which permits our citizens to
prosper are both at risk. We have no alternative but to
completely redefine the role of government to emphasize its
responsibility for the nurturing of our national information
commons, and to redefine national intelligence so as to
create a Virtual Intelligence Community in which every citizen
is a collector, producer, and consumer of intelligence. To
do this, we must have a National Information Strategy.
Robert Steele - Creating
a Smart Nation, 1996 Government Information
Quarterly
The above was my first introduction to his work.
Robert
David Steele is founder of
The Earth Intelligence
Network. His
Public
Intelligence Blog comes off a little too "conspiracy-theoretic
for me but I can mostly read past that.
I'm guessing that at least a handful here have direct knowledge of
and interest related to his ideas. His ideas are radical by some
measure but in my opinion, not without motivation and reason.
In particular, I am interested in the possibilities of harnessing
open-source information for the masses in a whole new way which
fundamentally is the original job/role of Journalism and Social
Commentary. My professional interests are roughly in the field of
Collective Intelligence but my personal interest is in living in a
global humanity consisting operating with
pervasive, highly
enlightened, self-interest.
- Steve
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