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FEBRUARY 13/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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Is your boss watching you? Surveillance device tracks employees’ movements in the office, sends details of conversations and even times their toilet breaks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552858/Workp…oilet.html

New software lets you mark places as off-limits for wearable camera gadgets like Google Glass.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523941/not-ok-glass/

Seeing as a Service. Forget Augmented Reality. What About Diminished Reality?
https://medium.com/futures-exchange/403771297f5f

Elon Musk plans to colonise Mars
http://futuretimeline.net/blog/2014/02/4.htm#.UvpE9oWGiHd

Africa: the sun rises on the next exploration hot spot
http://business-reporter.co.uk/2014/02/africa-the-sun-rises-…-hot-spot/

NSA failed to detect Snowden’s unsophisticated insider attack
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240214065/NSA-failed-to-…der-attack

Inside Intel: Pay for Performance Questioned
http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/02/11/inside-int…uestioned/

Trustworthy Computing
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/twc/privacy/data-governance.aspx

4 Benefits of Sales Gamification
http://www.inc.com/4-reasons-sales-gamification-works.html

Rotavirus Vaccines — Balancing Intussusception Risks and Health Benefits
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1315836

Technology Vision 2014: Become a Digital Disruptor

The sun’s violent insides revealed: Iris probe takes a detailed look beneath the star’s surface
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2556638/The-s…z2t1w6yxeD

How Startups Can Tap Into Google’s Secret Sauce: OKRs
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231202#ixzz2t1wLmajI

Statement for the Record — Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/testimonies/203-congre…um=twitter

Special Operations Command Wants X-Prize to Develop ‘Iron Man’ Suit
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post…ek.twitter

Has America lost its ability to dream big?
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/11/peter-thiel-has-ame…dream-big/

Google on NSA: We Need Rules, Transparency and Oversight
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/google-nsa-protests/

New Processor to Bring High-End Features to Cheap Smartphones
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/arm-cortex-a17-mediatek/

NASA, Deloitte To Bring Space-Age Risk Management To Oil And Gas Industry
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2013/J13&#…vpPzIWGiHc

Google-Backed Asteroid Mining Venture Attracts Billionaires
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/google-back…stors.html

Tech Investor to Entrepreneurs: A Harvard Degree Is a Liability

Raytheon receives $31 million Maverick missile contract from South Korea
http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2518

What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/11/what-cold-w…nazis.html

Would Bill Gates Artificially Prolong His Life? His Surprising (And Inspiring) Answer
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/bill-gates-reddit-2…mg00000046

How Bill Gates Radically Transformed His Public Speaking And Communication Skills
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2014/02/07/how-bill…ium=social

How to Get Investors to Move Faster
http://www.inc.com/kevin-daum/playbook-speeding-up-investors.html?cid=sf01001

The Myth of Similar Successful Qualities
http://editorialiv.com/2014/01/19/the-myth-of-similar-successful-qualities/

Unconventional Energy and U.S. National Security: A Conversation on Energy and Security

5 Attributes to Look for in High-Performing Employees
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231383#ixzz2t2794ydq

PayPal President’s credit card hacked for shopping spree
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/10/paypal-ceo-cre…d/5367979/

Let One Good Thing Lead To Another
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140211050133&#…st-small_1

Innovating at Scale: Building Trust
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140211161638&#4…st-small_3

Corporate Social Responsibility’s New Role in the Middle East
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00234?rssid=all_updates&gko=b365d

Moving from novice techie to Subject Matter Expert
http://www.itworld.com/career/404383/moving-novice-techie-subject-matter-expert

How To Get Your Employees to Think Strategically
http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/how-to-foster-strategic-thi…oyees.html

Is The Corporate Website Dead?
http://www.b2bmarketinginsider.com/content-marketing/corporate-website-dead

New advance in 3-D printing and tissue engineering technology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140210184719.htm

HHS to fund development of drug for bioterrorism, antimicrobial-resistant infections
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140210-hhs-to-fu…infections

Scientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140211084051.htm

Three things Bill Gates wishes he could have done 20 years ago
http://qz.com/175616/three-things-bill-gates-wishes-he-could…years-ago/

QUOTATION(S): “…People are always [and wrongfully] assuming that everything that is going to be invented must have been invented already. But it hasn’t…” AND “…The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, BUT HOW TO GET OLD ONES OUT …”

CITATION(S): “…We live in strange times, in case you have not noticed. Here we are with our home computers and other high-tech appliances, living what we regard as a normal life … The world we are living in ─ a world that couples Homo sapiens with fast-paced hypertechnology ─ is strange to us because sometimes it feels like what it is, a transient dream .… We are dreaming a strange, waking dream; an inevitably brief interlude sandwiched between the long age of low-tech humanity on the one hand, and the age of human beings transcended on the other. We are living in the latter days of humanity; cybertechnologies will quickly replace us. Just inches of time away exists a speedy reality bearing down on us that we may sense, but do not show on our faces .… While one may be made uncomfortable by the thought of a truly strange 21st century, there is around us an impending sense of arrival ─ a strangeness in the air, an uneasiness, a feeling that deep down, things are starting to change in swift, fundamental ways too fuzzy to put a finger on. More than just the onset of the third millennium, it is the quiet before the storm. The products of technology are becoming more curious ─ a little too smart, a little too fast. It’s downright unsettling. And, hey, people aren’t dumb. They know that we have just begun to build smart dumb machines; soon it will be dumb smart machines. Where will it stop? If we continue to build machines smarter than the last ones, and then one that is smarter than that and so on ─ well, you do not have to be a particle physicist to see that the machines cannot keep getting smarter and smarter, yet forever remain dumber than us. Garry ‘John Henry’ Kasparov, chess Grand Master, lost a championship game to a machine for the first time in history this year. Perhaps someday, we’ll hear the battle cry of humanity rallying in desperation: ‘Remember Deep Blue’…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPAL (TENETS) TO SEIZE PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (1) Picture mentally, radiantly. (2) Draw outside the canvas. (3) Color outside the vectors. (4) Sketch sinuously. (5) Far-sight beyond the mind’s intangible exoskeleton.

BOOK(S): The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. ISBN-13: 978–0393339758

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Figure 25.5 of “Gravitation” – the famous bible of general relativity written in 1973 by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler – shows on page 667 two curves as a function of time, both describing an astronaut in-falling from a stationary outer point onto a black hole. The two time curves at first coincide horizontally on the left. Then the upper one decays essentially exponentially reaching the horizontal x-axis of the horizon only asymptotically after infinite time. The lower curve, after initially coinciding, deviates downwards gently to after picking up speed (in a curve like the frontal part of a shoe’s profile) reach the horizon after 15 days already.

Figure 25.5 of

The lower curve is the proper time experienced by an astronaut falling onto a solar-mass black hole – the time it takes on the wristwatch to reach the horizon in free fall from a fixed outer position. The upper curve shows how this same in-falling process looks to an outside observer: infinitely elongated.

I am drawing your attention to this Figure in a famous book co-authored by my late friend John Wheeler because this figure – I claim – illustrates an error made by the whole physics community over many decades – notwithstanding the fact that the Figure is flawless.

The error consists in the reader’s believing that the short in-falling time experienced by the astronaut – lower curve – was “more real” because the maximally slowed-down appearance of the same process watched from the outside – upper curve – was caused by the growing and eventually infinite redshift that applies. This is the common belief in gravitation physics up to this day. Nevertheless this is a misunderstanding. How can I be sure?

My trick to convince you that the upper curve is the more real one lies in assuming that an ideal “trampoline” had been placed on the horizon – so that the motion of the in-falling astronaut is exactly time-inverted such that she is sent back up again without loss of kinetic energy. This ideal device can be assumed to be present without one’s making a formal mistake. The astronaut then automatically returns after another 15 days of her proper time. The pertinent curve – second shoe – is a mirror image of the first, touching it with its own tip at the level of the horizon to go up symmetrically to the right in order to hit the original height after 30 days of total travelling time of the astronaut. Such a second “dashed shoe” can be entered legally into the figure of Misner, Thorne and Wheeler.

Now the clinching question: Where, after these 30 days of travel experienced by the astronaut, lies the reappearance point of the astronaut on the time axis of the stationary outer observer (assuming he still occupies the same position as taken when the astronaut was released into free fall)?

My claim: The return occurs, not at 30 days of outer time as the newly added dashed curve suggests, but rather at “twice infinity” in outer time. The second dashed line – the one valid from the outside – is a mirror image of the full infinitely long upper curve added on to it on the right at t = infinity. This finishes the example.

If you are a high-school student: would you, please, ask your teacher about her or his opinion? I predict you will be told the following: The events on the wristwatch of the astronaut are only “optically elongated” such that what takes place in a short time for the astronaut looks vastly – eventually infinitely – stretched-out on the time scale of the outside world. But nonetheless “this does not add up to ‘twice infinity’ since no textbook says so and the question is too simple and important to have been overlooked over almost a century.” So the optical stretching must somehow be made up for again when the astronaut is racing back overtaking her own formerly sent-out light signals.

Can you make up your mind yourself?: Will the astronaut find a double infinity of outer time to have passed when she re-arrives (as I say), or can she hug the crew she left 30 days before? Bets are invited.

Acknowledgment

I thank my students for their skepticism which opened-up my eyes to the general interest of the question.

By — Geekosystem

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Not content with only building gigantic horror-bots that will one day rule your city with a literal iron fist, DARPA has teamed up with the Pentagon to get a little smaller - implantable-brain-robot smaller. Hopefully, this new project will help treat memory loss in soldiers injured in combat (and not turn them into weird DARPA-slavebots).

Though Medtronic Inc. (MDT) has already created robot brain implants to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s, not much work has gone into using these robots to restore memories lost in traumatic injuries. DARPA is using funding from President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative to develop implantable probes that could apply this same Medtronic science to memory loss.

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FEBRUARY 12/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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X-ray imaging protein molecules at atomic resolution using a graphene cage
http://www.kurzweilai.net/x-ray-imaging-protein-molecules-at…phene-cage

Wearable ‘neurocam’ records scenes when it detects user interest
http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-neurocam-records-scenes-w…r-interest

Searching space dust for minute quantities of life’s ingredients
http://www.kurzweilai.net/searching-space-dust-for-minute-qu…ngredients

For landmine detection, Bogota designers think with their feet (1:52)
http://uk.reuters.com/video/2014/02/09/for-landmine-detectio…annel=4000

DHS takes new approach to troubled TECS modernization
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/dhs-takes-new-approa…z2svhTZcHz

Scientists develop potential new drug treatment to tackle viruses
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-scientists-potential-drug-treatment-tackle.html

Nanotechnology researchers control artificial nanomotors inside living cells
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34335.php…gy+News%29

Humans Teaching Machine Learning
http://www.adallom.com/blog/humans-teaching-machine-learning/

Pentagon vexed by inability to solve ethics lapses
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/pentagon-scandals-mili…03302.html

New programming language removes human error from privacy equation
https://www.csail.mit.edu/node/2166

Caltech: secrets of the world’s number one university
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/caltech-secre…ullarticle

Optogenetic toolkit goes multicolor. New light-sensitive proteins allow scientists to study how multiple sets of neurons interact with each other
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/optogenetic-toolkit-goes-multicolor-0209.html

Why Do Nerds Become Successful CEOs?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2014/02/10/why…sful-ceos/

The government drone is on its way: UAE plans to use biometric quadcopters for ID card delivery
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/10/the-government-drone-is-on-its-…-delivery/

Alibaba offers to buy digital mapping company AutoNavi
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/us-autonavi-offer-…vrit=59213

H7N9 vaccine proves effective on lab mice
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2014-02/09/c_133101225.htm

Reinventing Social Media: Deep Learning, Predictive Marketing, And Image Recognition Will Change Everything
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-medias-big-data-future…2014-2

World’s First Entanglement-Enhanced Microscope
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/524521/worlds-first-ent…ce=twitter

Conserved nuclear envelope protein uses a shuttle service to travel between job sites
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-nuclear-envelope-protein-shuttle-job.html

From Gadgets To Galaxies: Conference Reports
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/from-gadge…um=twitter

Zero-sum politics
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595973-voters-…umpolitics

Striking Photos Go Deep Inside the European Space Program
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2014/02/european-space-agency-e…-id-139871

Tech innovation vs. the surveillance state: How it’s playing out in Washington
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/tech-innovation-vs-the-s…ashington/

CHART OF THE DAY: Europe’s Share Of Global Profits Is At A 28-Year Low
http://www.businessinsider.com/europes-share-of-msci-world-earnings-2014-2

Bitcoin Bug Prompts Pricing Freefall
http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-bug-prompts-pricing-f…-main-link

Administration weighs drone strike against American citizen
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-strategy/197898-…ng-with-al

We’re about to get a new composites manufacturing robot, engineers tell

Design and strategy in organic synthesis
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/02/design-strategy-or…oux-merner

10 things not to buy in 2014
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-things-not-to-buy-in-201…nk=sfmw_sm

Worried sick: What’s up with today’s rampant anxiety?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129550.800-worried-s…AL-twitter

Why Traffic To These Google Alternatives Is Soaring
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2014/02/10/why-traffi…um=twitter

How We Created a Network of STEM Teachers
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/02/05/20gillespie.h33…clp-edweek

An Austrian Artist Has Completely Reinvented The Door
http://www.businessinsider.com/klemens-torgglers-kinectic-door-2014-2

Dyson’s vision for future robots
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/dysons-vision-for-future-robots

Terrific Tech: 10 Futuristic Advances in Robotics

Terrific Tech: 10 Futuristic Advances in Robotics

3D-printed hip implant lets teenager walk again
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-hip-implant/30763/

3D-printed pizza – a quick and easy meal for astronauts?
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-pizza-astronauts/30685/

The Year Man Becomes Immortal
http://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2048601,00.html

Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/01/23/do-you-tr…your-home/

US Lead in Science And Technology Shrinking
http://www.sciencenewsline.com/summary/2014020622520037.html

New Blood Pressure Tracking Device Works with Smartphone

Gizmos & Gadgets: New Blood Pressure Tracking Device Works with Smartphone

New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events

Headlines: New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events

“More than 93 percent of the warming of the planet since 1970 is found in the ocean”

Headlines: “More than 93 percent of the warming of the planet since 1970 is found in the ocean”

U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/05/u-s-agencies-take-signi…e-another/

5 most incredible discoveries of the week
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/08/newser-incredi…s/5312059/

‘Natural cities’ emerge from location-based social media
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/08/natural-cities-emerge-fr…ial-media/

The real promise of big data: It’s changing the whole way humans will solve problems
http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/09/the-real-promise-of-big-da…-problems/

Text, Chat, Profit: Tencent Launches Investing on WeChat
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/01/22/text-chat-prof…on-wechat/

The CEO’s Perfect Storm: Demographics, Data, and Devices Change Everything
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140210140304&#4…everything

Is Amazon entering the mobile payment war?
http://www.brickmeetsclick.com/is-amazon-entering-the-mobile-payment-war–

Digital health partnership marries clinical and sensor data for more proactive senior care

Digital health partnership marries clinical and sensor data for more proactive senior care

Chips Break Sales Record in 2013
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320876

QUOTATION(S): “…We won’t just experience 100 years of progress in the twenty-first century ─ it will be more like 20,000 years of progress…”

CITATION(S): “…If it seems like your world has been topsy-turvy over the past few years … Consider what’s coming. Your genetic code will be imprinted on and ID card … For better and worse. Medicines will be tailored to your genes and will help prevent specific diseases for which you may be at risk. (But … your insurance company and your prospective employer may also find out that you are genetically disposed to, say, heart disease, or breast cancer, or Alzheimer’s.)…” AND “…The lesson of the last three decades is that nobody can drive to the future on cruise control…”

BOOK(S): Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff. ISBN-13: 978–1591844761

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

By Christopher Mims — Quartz

Startup Bitcoin Kinetics, which aims to create hardware that can allow vending machines to accept bitcoin, is offering 10 billion shares of common stock on the website Cryptostocks. This isn’t your typical IPO—Cryptostocks, where Bitcoin Kinetics will be “listed,” describes itself as both a crowd funding platform and a place to “buy shares… and earn dividends.” It’s not clear what the legal status of Cryptostocks is, since it’s not licensed or registered as an exchange. One commenter called Cryptostocks “another of the play-pretend Bitcoin financial exchanges.” (We reached out to Cryptostocks for comment, and will update this when we hear back from them.)

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By Zach Schonfeld — Newsweek
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Spurred by a host of recent converts to the peer-to-peer digital currency, Newsweek has become the first magazine to accept Bitcoin PR pitches. The digital currency’s visibility in popular retailers remains modest, but its presence in our email inboxes has frankly never been higher.

If the volume of recent press releases is any indication, Newsweek will be shortly accompanied by the first Indian e-Commerce store, Swiss dentist, HFT service provider, and public university to embrace the currency form.

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Jim Edwards, provided by
Virgin Galactic

We were talking recently with an executive in the adtech startup scene and got onto the subject of Bitcoin, and how much money was pouring into — and coming out of — the online cryptocurrency in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area.

This source told us that he had heard about a guy who had made more than $200,000 from trading Bitcoin, and had used it to charter a rocket into space.

Wait, what?

Turns out, it’s true.
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FEBRUARY 11/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

London’s first computer, the fastest in the world at 1MHz. May, 1950

TECH NOW: A drone for every home?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2014/02/08/tech…s/5264883/

Russian authorities say Bitcoin illegal
http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=OBR&dat…d=17333977

See how dangerous a toothpaste tube bomb can be — CNN.com Video
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2014/02/06/tsr-dnt…73%2Cd.eW0

Passenger claiming to have bomb tried to divert plane to Sochi
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/7/passenger-bom…ane-sochi/

Tech expert discusses cyberattacks’ far-reaching consequences
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/40152/tech_expert_discuss…reach_reac

A new tech solution to the BYOD security dilemma
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/40142/new_tech_solution_byod_security_dilemma

How Offensive Cyber Security is Changing the Industry
https://communities.intel.com/community/itpeernetwork/blog/2…e-industry

Bill Would Provide Comprehensive Study of Electric Grid Resiliency
http://www.hstoday.us/industry-news/general/single-article/b…1119c.html

Top US Homeland Security Priorities For Congress In 2014 – Analysis
http://www.eurasiareview.com/09022014-top-us-homeland-securi…-analysis/

Exposed: Barclays account details for sale as ‘gold mine’ of up to 27,000 files is leaked in worst breach of bank data EVER
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554875/Barclays-acc…eaked.html

NSA Leaks May Slow Cybersecurity Detente. Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge not optimistic on a future cybersecurity treaty.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/02/03/nsa-leaks-may…ty-detente

BPC to Release Electric Grid Cybersecurity Recommendations
http://bipartisanpolicy.org/news/press-releases/2014/02/bpc-…mendations

FEMA Enlists Designers to Rethink Disaster Relief
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/fema-frog-teamed-redesign-disaster-relief/

London Ambulance picks its best and brightest to be ‘super paramedics’
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/london-ambulance-picks…11109.html

The United States Makes It Clear That It Sides With Japan Over China
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-sides-with-japan-over-china-2014-2

One day you won’t need a badge to enter your building, just a SIM card
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/07/one-day-you-wont-need-a-badge-t…-sim-card/

Snowden’ leaks derailed important cybersecurity initiatives
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140206-snowden-l…nitiatives

Attack on California power station heightens concerns about grid security
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140207-attack-on…d-security

Homeland Security Agenda
http://www.c-span.org/video/?317653-1/HomelandSecurityAge

Microsoft’s Kinect Is Being Used To Help Guard The Korean DMZ
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-kinect-is-helping-monitor-the-dmz-2014-2

Are Evacuation Practices Flawed?
http://www.securitymanagement.com/article/are-evacuation-pra…ed-0013108

North Korea Built A Fleet Of Mobile Missile Launchers Out Of Chinese Trucks
http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-has-mobile-missil…2014-2

Washington Responds to Cybersecurity Threats with Recommendations and Legislation
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/washington-responds-…egislation

DHS chief says Syria is a US homeland security threat
http://www.firstpost.com/world/dhs-chief-says-syria-is-a-us-…ef_article

DHS prepares for hypothetical immigration reform
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/dhs-prepares-hyp…;02-07

Target attack shows danger of remotely accessible HVAC systems
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246111/Target_attack…AC_systems

Big Data skills pay top dollar
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246120/Big_Data_skills_pay_top_dollar

NSA is collecting less than 30 percent of U.S. call data, officials say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-is…story.html

The Future Of Data Mining Your Health
http://disinfo.com/2013/07/the-future-of-data-mining-your-health/

From Windows to the Xbox: Bill Gates’ ‘pioneering’ impact
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/04/tech/innovation/bill-gates-mic…hpt=hp_bn5

Why Americans love prepaid cards
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/06/pf/prepaid-cards/index.html?source=cnn_bin

The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: Global edition
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2014/02/06/global-mo…ce=cnn_bin

January Jobs Report: U.S. Creates 113,000 Jobs, Unemployment Rate Dips To 6.6%
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/january-jobs-report…hpt=hp_bn8

Exposing a Corporate Trend in Higher Education in Germany
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/world/europe/exposing-a-co…ation&_r=0

Human Noise Disturbs Different Fish in Different Ways
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/not-bad-science/2014/02/…rent-ways/

Scientific American at the World Economic Forum in Davos
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2…-in-davos/

Categorising bacteria in purple and pink
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2014/02/09/categ…-and-pink/

Black Widows Have More Control Over Their Attacks Than You Think
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/not-bad-science/2014/02/…r-attacks/

The Impact of TED Talks
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2014…ted-talks/

Human Footprints Discovered on England’s Coast Are Oldest Outside Africa
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/02/07/…de-africa/

5 Everyday Products Developed from NASA Technology – The Countdown, Episode 41
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-countdown/2014/02/07…pisode-41/

“The Perfect Theory”: The story of general relativity, and what makes something a science
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction…a-science/

40 years ago: our sister planet revealed
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2014/02/05/…-revealed/

Are Parallel Universes Unscientific Nonsense? Insider Tips for Criticizing the Multiverse
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/02/04/ar…ultiverse/

New Book Cuts Through Fog of Hype Cloaking Cyberwar
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/02/04/n…-cyberwar/

Special Report: Dream Jobs 2014
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/special-report-dream-jobs-2014

Lockheed Martin Shows Off High-Power Fiber Laser Weapon
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/lockhe…ser-weapon

Milestone Tests Help Refurbish Dwindling U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurem…ar-arsenal

Who Is SCHAFT, the Robot Company Bought by Google and Winner of the DRC?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/schaft…nge-winner

Internet Giants Disclose FISA Surveillance Requests For Customer Data
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/internet…tomer-data

India Aims High With 4-Gigawatt Solar Plant
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/india-a…olar-plant

Sony’s Jun Rekimoto Dreams Up Gadgets for the Far Future
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/sonys-jun-rekimo…far-future

Amputee Successfully Feels Prosthetic Grip Strength Via Arm Electrodes
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/sensit…ets-a-grip

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Tech Will Be Mandatory, say Feds
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/green-tech/advanced-cars/…y-say-feds

Marsupial Robot Team Monitors Rivers From Water and Air
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot…er-and-air

Road Salt Sensor for Better Highway Safety, Less Environmental Damage
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurem…tal-damage

Hybrid Generator Would Cut Military Base Fuel Costs in Half
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/aerospace/military/hybri…ts-in-half

F-35 Software: DoD’s Chief Tester Remains Unimpressed
http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/f35-softwar…nimpressed

QUOTATION(S): “…The FUTURE is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed…” AND “…The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you…” AND “…I’m deglitched that the future is unsure. That’s the way it should be…”

CITATION(S): “…From Conventional Wisdom to Shocking Probability. Maybe someday, sooner or later, truly intelligent machines will be built. Until that time, speculation will abound. Much of that speculation is based on what might be called ‘Conventional Wisdom,’ the underlying assumptions and conventions we collectively share. We can list some of these assumptions as follows: The next century will be an extension of this one, with increasingly smarter machines being run by people and for people … Because the human mind is linked to a soul, cybernetic machines will never be fully self-aware like we are … If intelligent robots can be built, it will be a long time before they can be made to do what humans do, as well as humans do it. Perhaps centuries will be required … Even after intelligent robots are made, multitudes of humans will continue to exist on earth, and maybe even in space … Human minds and personal identities will never be able to merge with an electromechanical system … Even if it were possible, we humans would refuse to download our minds onto hardware, no matter how tempting and intelligent the new surroundings might be. We believe that cyberbeings will be emotionless, soulless, and humorless mechanical zombies ─ rather like ‘Star Trek’s’ Lt. Commander Data, a somewhat sad android pining for a humanity he will never achieve … No matter how smart they are, digital minds will never have the insight, intuition, and smooth savvy of the human mind. They will forever remain mentally inferior, and our faithful, self- maintaining servants … The robots will soon prove our mental and physical superiors. Self-generated enhancements will refine them beyond our control. They will enslave us all except, of course, for a renegade band of rebellious, young, good-looking, daring humans armed with battered, recycled surplus weapons, fearlessly following their craggy but wise leader into a fight for truth, justice, and the hominid way … THIS BOOK ARGUES THAT THE NEXT CENTURY WILL PROVE TO BE NOTHING LIKE THIS ONE, NOR ANY FORECAST SO FAR. COMPUTING POWER, NEUROSCIENCE, AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES ARE ADVANCING SO RAPIDLY THAT THEY WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ITSELF … WE MAINTAIN THAT THE HUMAN MIND AND CONSCIOUS THOUGHT ARE EXCLUSIVELY NATURAL AND PHYSICAL IN ORIGIN AND NATURE. ULTIMATELY, THEIR NATURES AND FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES ARE KNOWABLE AND CAN BE REPLICATED FOR THE PURPOSES OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY…”

BOOK(S): Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier. ISBN-13: 978–0544002692

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

FEBRUARY 10/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
lba
UPDATE 1-China central bank urges proper management of risk, liquidity
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/08/china-economy-cenb…8720140208

Iran sending warships close to U.S. borders
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/iran-warships-us-borders-103288.html

Apple’s Tim Cook on Plans for Cash and Emerging Markets
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/07/apple-still-a-growth-…interview/

World’s first 3D-printed titanium bicycle frame could lead to cheaper, lighter bikes
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-titanium-bicycle-frame/3076…witterfeed

Ignore the Unemployment Rate. The most totemic statistic about the U.S. economy is archaic and misleading
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230349680…ss_economy

Why Problems Are An Entrepreneur’s Best Friend
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janbruce/2014/01/28/why-problems…st-friend/

Gastric surgery increases risk of alcoholism
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/…17066.html

Snowden nicked NSA docs with common tool, raising more concern about agency — report
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57618608-38/sn…cy-report/

Tribeca and CERN Want To Change Storytelling With A Hackathon
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026107/tribeca-and-cern-want-to-c…Company%29

3D Printed Hip Implant Allows Teen to Finally Walk
http://3dprint.com/3d-printed-hip-implant-allows-teen-to-finally-walk/

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/many-promising-embryon…SOC&dom=tw

High Potential for Life Circling Alpha Centauri B, our Nearest Neighbor

High Potential for Life Circling Alpha Centauri B, our Nearest Neighbor

Countervailing motion
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21595937…-are-still

Toyota’s $1 Billion Fine Begs Question: Do We Really Want To Regulate This Way?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/02/08/toyotas-…ium=social

Single-pole magnet emerges in frozen concoction

Single-pole magnet emerges in frozen concoction

The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: Global edition
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2014/02/06/global-mo…ign=buffer

How To Win When You Fail
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231260

How the speed of technological change can be an opportunity
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/02/05/smith-speed-of-change.aspx

Welcome to the Multiverse
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/18-out-there-welcome-to…vcVIYWGiHd

Quantum Computing: A Primer

Quantum Computing: A Primer

What the Singularity Will Mean at the Office
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/02/06/what-the-singularity-wil…he-office/

Alvin deep-sea sub cleared to start next half-century of service
http://www.gizmag.com/alvin-return/30617/

U.S. Experimented With Nuclear Fracking
http://orwellwasright.co.uk/2014/02/02/u-s-experimented-with-nuclear-fracking/

Terrific: Iranian warships approaching U.S. maritime borders
http://www.caintv.com/breaking-iranian-warships-appr

How To Keep Your Team And Make Your Startup Acquisition Succeed

How To Keep Your Team And Make Your Startup Acquisition Succeed

‘Minority Report’ technology is real and it’s here (and it’s cool)
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140204/BLOGS11/1402…it-s-cool#

Nanotechnology holds promise for security applications
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/11293426/a-look-at-…plications

7 Ways To Be More Productive At Work
http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/7-ways-productive-work/

The Inevitable Collision Of Technology and Politics
http://www.digitaltonto.com/2014/the-inevitable-collision-of…-politics/

New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events

Headlines: New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events

Why Steve Ballmer Left Microsoft Better Than He Found It
http://www.cio.com/article/747901/Why_Steve_Ballmer_Left_Mic…e_Found_It

11 Ways to Improve Your IT Team’s Productivity
http://www.cio.com/article/747843/11_Ways_to_Improve_Your_IT_Team_s_Productivity

Experts Warn of Russian Spying, Hackers at Sochi Olympics
http://www.cio.com/article/747846/Experts_Warn_of_Russian_Sp…i_Olympics

How to Get the Job You Want in 2014’s Hot IT Job Market
http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/139241/How-to-Get-the-Jo…Job-Market

‘Natural cities’ emerge from location-based social media
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/08/natural-cities-emerge-fr…ial-media/

MBAs by the Hour: Disrupting the Consulting Model
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/mbas-by-the-hour-disrupting-t…FIolQ.html

Gmail, Hangouts, and other Google services are back to normal after service outage (update)
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/24/5342252/gmail-hangouts-and…-right-now

6 Attention-Grabbing Direct Mail Designs
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230746

Stanford Re:Think Roundup: Achieving Success in Business and Beyond
http://stanfordbusiness.tumblr.com/post/76140155106/stanford…success-in

A robot in every home: Dyson enters race to provide ‘advanced household androids’ for all
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/a-robot-in-ev…17372.html

Hack a 3D Printer Into a Surprisingly Skilled Air Hockey Robot
http://gizmodo.com/hack-a-3d-printer-into-a-surprisingly-ski…1518317429

LAPD IT Chief: “Israel Has Some Amazing Tech”
http://i-hls.com/2014/02/lapd-chief-israel-amazing-tech/?utm…azing-tech

Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web
http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-sc…s-tool-web

3 Ways to Test the Accuracy of Your Predictive Models
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/3-ways-to-test-accuracy-you…odels.html

Big Chinese Internet Companies Are Competing Head On Against Chinese Banks
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-banks-battle-internet-…2014-2

Experiment Is Crowdfunding Science Projects, Just Don’t Ask Them To Find Bigfoot
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/02/07/experimen…ium=social

Energy firms’ gas profit margins questioned by minister
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26112330

How Micro-Location, Geofencing and Indoor Location Are Driving The Retail Revolution
http://www.gislounge.com/opinion-piece-micro-location-geofen…evolution/

Climate change: Weather of Olympian extremes
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/09/leader-…CMP=twt_fd

FDA Panel to Weigh Painkillers’ Cardiac Risk
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230387450…rss_Health

Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy. And It’s Dangerous to Hero-Worship Entrepreneurs
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/silicon-valley-isnt-a-m…ople-back/

WIRED Space Photo of the Day
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/wired-space-photo-…34261:full

This Is The Best Free Online Course For Entrepreneurs
http://www.businessinsider.com/best-online-course-for-entrepreneurs-2014-2

The cost of capital is higher for entities that are not audited
http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/topics/value-of-audit/intervie…f1404795=1

New Business Models Need New Approaches to IT
http://cioofthefuture.com/new-business-models-need-new-approaches-to-it/

The 10 Weirdest Things Thieves Steal: 24/7 Wall St.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/09/weird-steal_n_47566…mg00000067

Why Is EnerNOC Funding a Solar Software Startup?
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/enernoc-invests-…h+Media%29

Yelp And Yahoo Are Reportedly Teaming Up

Yelp And Yahoo Are Reportedly Teaming Up

Does grass-fed beef have any heart-health benefits that other types of beef don’t?
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease/…Q-20058059

Starwatch: Supernova in Ursa Major
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/09/starwatch-sup…CMP=twt_fd

Warren Buffett Made A Bet In 2008 That Has The Potential To Make The Hedge Fund Industry Look Very Bad
http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffetts-hedge-fund-bet-2014-2

Victorian fires: emergency continues after at least 20 homes lost — live updates
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/victorian-fires…CMP=twt_fd

Climate slowdown? Just wait until the wind changes
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25015-climate-slowdown…anges.html

NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/9/5395684/nasa-begins-hunt-fo…n-catalyst

Entering the Era of Private and Semi-Anonymous Apps

Three rules for success: Michael Raynor at TEDxUniversity

QUOTATION(S): “…It reminds us that, in our accelerating, headlong era, the future presses so close upon us that those who ignore it inhabit not the present but the past …” AND “…The future is not a privilege but a perpetual conquest…”

CITATION(S): “…The world has profoundly changed … The challenges and complexity we face in our personal lives and relationships, in our families, in our professional lives, and in our organizations are of a different order of magnitude. In fact, many mark 1989 ─ the year we witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall ─ as the beginning of the Information Age, the birth of a new reality, a sea change of incredible significance ─ truly a new era ─ Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option ─ survival in today’s world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness [long-held assumptions, fallacies and flawed beliefs and faulty conventions]…Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today’s new reality REQUIRES A SEA CHANGE IN THINKING: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set ─ in short, a whole new habit…”

BOOK(S): The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage by Yossi Sheffi. ISBN-13: 978–0262693493

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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Cars that retain their human drivers despite growing numbers of self-driving vehicles will gain automated safe-driving features in the United States, according to an announcement this week that U.S. federal agencies will encourage vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, communication technology for passenger vehicles.

The proposal relates to a kind of internet in which the connected computers are cars and trucks sharing data about speed, position and nearby traffic signals ten times a second in order to reduce accidents. If two cars on a three-lane road simultaneously attempted to switch into the center lane, for example, the V2V system could warn both drivers. Alternately, if a car two vehicles ahead brakes, the third driver could be alerted whether or not the middle driver braked immediately.

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