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Dec- 2018 -7 DecemberDeep Tech
DEEPTECH: THE FUTURE OF WAR, BLOCKCHAIN MAPS, NET NEUTRALITY, & MORE!
Come Ye Masters Technocrats of War Think the deadliest agent is a soldier? Think again. As the theater of war…
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3 DecemberNew Voices
A Different Kind of Choice for a Voter – The Conversation
Thanksgiving Day, my wife and I called a family meeting. She started by announcing that we were adopting a child…
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3 DecemberBlog
Deep State Radio Book Group: The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis
The recent rapprochement between Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump at their summit in June this year and the strange (and…
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Nov- 2018 -30 NovemberFP Interrupted
The G20 Summit – Argentina 2018
All eyes are on Buenos Aires this weekend. The leaders of the Group of 20 strongest economies, aka G20, (we’ve…
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30 NovemberDeep Tech
Deep Tech: Cybersecurity and China, Smart Speakers and Privacy, Space Debris, Synthetic Finger Prints
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Hacker Unit New reports indicate that China has restarted its aggressive state-funded cyber espionage on the US…
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16 NovemberFP Interrupted
Women & War, Peace, and Security
So, about that trope that national security and defense is a “man’s” issue (we see you GQ 👀). Last week’s midterms…
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16 NovemberDeep Tech
DeepTech: Hypersonic Weapons, DARPA’s Black Start Exercise, AI In Healthcare
Blast off! It’s Party Time, As US, Russia, & China Develop Hypersonic Weapons Last week DARPA, the US military’s Defense…
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9 NovemberDeep Tech
DeepTech: AI Learning to Interpret Human Emotion, DeepFakes, Crytographic Voting Systems and More
Researchers Are Teaching AI to Recognize & Interpret Human Emotion: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? AI systems are getting good…
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9 NovemberFP Interrupted
Women Wave
There were a lot of firsts on Tuesday. A record number of women ran and won in elections across the…
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6 NovemberNew Voices
Weighing the Value of a US Led International Order
I’ve spent the past several days thinking about a recurring theme that showed up in the three or four most…
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5 NovemberNew Voices
Electoral Cyber-Shenanigans: Considering the Possibilities
With the US midterm elections tomorrow, Americans must consider whether and how Russian interests might again use cyber tools against…
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2 NovemberDeep Tech
DeepTech – Project JEDI & Maven, Creative Potential of AI, Google’s Utopian City Quayside, & more
Creative gains in AI reshapes global labor force Amid mounting fears of sector automation, there was reassurance that some jobs…
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2 NovemberFP Interrupted
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Remember when we were all obsessed with the Russians and elections? #GoodTimes. Instead, as we go into Tuesday’s midterm elections…
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Oct- 2018 -30 OctoberBlog
”If They Come For Us’ – The Book Group Reading of ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners’
Can you make sense of the Holocaust and the actions of those who took part in it? This is the…
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29 OctoberBlog
Slouching towards an American Dystopia?
I am a naturalized American citizen. I lived most of my life, and intend to spend what is left of…
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26 OctoberDeep Tech
DeepTech – Quantum Computing, Military AI, Facial Recognition and More
Quantum Computing Will Render Encryption useless Nearly all US weapons are vulnerable to cyber attack, and the US military is…
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26 OctoberBlog
Khashoggi, the caravan, Brazil’s elections: The How will it end? edition
The Jamal Khashoggi saga has gripped our attention, much to Muhammad bin Salman’s (MBS) surprise – and chagrin. After cutting off…
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19 OctoberBlog
It’s All About the Benjamins
The only things missing were the back and knee slaps. Otherwise, it was all smiles and genteel banter on Tuesday…
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19 OctoberNew Voices
A Different Kind of Choice for a Voter
The idea did not surface immediately following the 2016 election. Nor was it influenced solely by the election. What was…
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15 OctoberBlog
Thugs-я-Us: Growing Impunity
On October 10, 1957, Komla Gbedemah entered a Howard Johnson’s diner in Dover, Delaware. Gbedemah was the finance minister of…
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