Jeff Hawkins' Nu Menta group has been renamed Grok to emphasize the transition from a research venture to a commercial product company. The company has begun deployment of Grok, its patented machine intelligence product which ingests data streams and creates actionable predictions in real-time. (more)

This may become a Thinker Web page if it turns into anything coherent. (more)

Arnold Kling on the cycle of Globalization. The process is likely to be very convoluted. Maybe the Indian workers will outsource the production of yogurt. The yogurt producers may outsource the production of milk to Australia. The Australians may want beer, which they outsource to Germany. The Germans want drug research, which they outsource to the United States, because we still allow drug companies to profit from research. With low interest rates, thanks to the fact that all of our trading partners want crateloads of U.S. Treasury securities, one of our drug companies can finance a new research facility. To build it, the construction company may hire workers who are new immigrants. The new immigrants might want schools where their children can learn to read English. These schools might outsource some of their teaching to Rachel. (Just kidding. The Teachers Union will not allow economic activity. And they do not seem to care much for teaching English to immigrants, either. But you get the idea.) Hmmm, what happens when the PharmCo-s move their research there, and our new houses get prefabbed in China? Will we be left with Pizza Delivery, like in SnowCrash?

linchpin of the Service Economy? (more)

http://www.lneilsmith.org/ (more)

Democracy where the people make decisions themselves (e.g. through Referen Dum) (more)

David Wong notes that we don't really need to buy very much anymore, but at the same time most of us aren't doing anything very important either. Artificial Scarcity is the Shared Delusion Game Rule that keeps us from eating each other... Look at how many of Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs they're getting digitally: Everything from that second tier to the capstone, they can get at a cost that rounds down to zero, if they so choose. (more)

Comic Strip satirizing the insanity of Management. (more)

Thirty7 Signals (37signals) is renaming itself BaseCamp, and focusing on just that 1 product! (more)

Standardized Test taken in High School to get College Education credits and/or skip entry-level courses. (more)

Jon Udell on Andy Clark's perspective on Augmenting Human Intellect. Ever since the advent of language, and especially since the advent of print, our minds have operated in a hybrid mode, depending on a complex interaction between information processes running inside the skull and information processes running outside it. This is now our natural state, argues Clark, and it is not really meaningful or useful to try to precisely define the inside/outside boundary.

Engineering School

David Wong gives 5 reasons the Future will be Ruled by the BullShit of Artificial Scarcity. Everything from that second tier to the capstone (of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs), they can get at a cost that rounds down to zero, if they so choose... The future is going to hang on whether or not businesses will be able to convince you to pay money for things you can otherwise get for free. (So maybe a Basic Income can go further than you might expect...)

Oligarchy ruled by the rich. (more)

OmidyarNet is shutting down. (more)

Melanie Kahl on building a Schooling Curriculum around Design Thinking. *In this series, we will explore what it means to export various lenses of design in learning settings. From empowerment to empathy and iteration to co-creation–– how might we better illuminate this fertile intersection of design and learning? (more)

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I had been noticing how slow this WikiLog was performing for months. I finally realized that Blue Host has been "CpuThrottling" the server - 90% of the time! They weren't able, at least in a couple emails, to narrow it down beyond it being MoinMoin (duh), nor did they tell me anything that gave me a clue to go looking after (most of their documentation on it is about slow MySQL queries). (more)

Teresa Torres: How to Set Goals (Goal Setting) That Drive Product Success - Product Talk (more)

Given my SimpleNote hassles, and my new Nexus Seven Tablet, and Phil Jones nagging me about jumping to the WikiFarm category in Picking A Wiki For Your Private Notebook, I want to take a shot at using Drop Box as a Data Synch system for my Private Wiki instead of SimpleNote. (more)