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Peter Cochrane
All civilisations live or die by the quality of their fundamental truths. Governments, legal systems, commerce, industry, engineering, science and education are built on verifiable and hard won knowledge that is tested and continually honed by new discoveries and revelations based on evidence and accumulated experience. However, truth, facts, knowledge and expertise are now under attack and suffering in accelerating rates of distortion and corruption.
In an age of information wars, establishing ‘the truth’ and/or applying verifiable facts and knowledge are no longer easy or straightforward. Modern media, the internet, social networks, has given everyone a voice, and an assumed right to express their opinion even if they may be totally ignorant. So, plagiarism, errors, and deliberate falsifications have become a new tool for some political and commercial operations, and a new form of information warfare!
Truth is expensive and hard to comprehend, and it is far easier to unthinkingly accept simple (and often crude) misrepresentations and lies from anonymous sources, bogus media and pernicious sources including criminals, rogue states and corrupt political groups. At the click of a key they can distribute the falsehoods to millions of screens where quantity and not quality define a new truth!
Club of Amsterdam Journal, May 2005, Issue 48
The Club of Amsterdam Journal appears 2 x per month the future ofNANOTECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY, ICT, PHILOSOPHY, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, MEDICINE, FOOD, MOBILITY, MUSIC, INTERNET, ENERGY, MEDIA, RELIGION, BIOTECH, POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, ARCHITECTURE, LEARNING, SENIOR CITIZENS, DEMOCRACY, SCIENCE, CULTURE Content Human-like NASA Space Robot Goes Mobile with Leg, Wheels News about Robotics News about…
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the future of Robotics
Wednesday, June 1, 2005reception: 18:30-19:30, conference: 19:30-22:15For information about the VIP Dinner (17:30-19:00), please visit the online Ticket CornerWhere: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Prins Bernhardplein 200, Amsterdam [next to Amstelstation], free parking.Ticket information: http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/ticketcorner.htmlSupporter Why should you attend? Program Speakers Tickets Supporter Location Print version Ticket CornerThe conference language is English. Why should you attend? “A few hundred kilometres above us, outside the thin layer of gas we call atmosphere, lies a hostile…
Club of Amsterdam Journal, May 2005, Issue 47
The Club of Amsterdam Journal appears 2 x per month the future ofNANOTECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY, ICT, PHILOSOPHY, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, MEDICINE, FOOD, MOBILITY, MUSIC, INTERNET, ENERGY, MEDIA, RELIGION, BIOTECH, POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, ARCHITECTURE, LEARNING, SENIOR CITIZENS, DEMOCRACY, SCIENCE, CULTURE Content 2004 World Robotics survey News about Robotics News about the Future Next Event Notes…
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Club of Amsterdam Journal, April 2005, Issue 46
The Club of Amsterdam Journal appears 2 x per month the future ofNANOTECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY, ICT, PHILOSOPHY, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, MEDICINE, FOOD, MOBILITY, MUSIC, INTERNET, ENERGY, MEDIA, RELIGION, BIOTECH, POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, ARCHITECTURE, LEARNING, SENIOR CITIZENS, DEMOCRACY, SCIENCE, CULTURE Content Technology Brands Meet the Bottom Line News about Branding News about the Future Next…
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the future of Branding
the future of BrandingWednesday, April 27, 2005reception: 18:30-19:30, conference: 19:30-22:15For information about the VIP Dinner (17:30-19:00), please visit the online Ticket CornerWhere: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Prins Bernhardplein 200, Amsterdam [next to Amstelstation], free parking.Ticket information: http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/ticketcorner.htmlSupporter Why should you attend? Program Speakers Tickets Supporter Location Print version Ticket CornerThe conference language is English. Why should you attend? Branding as we know it is a thing of the past. If you put on…
Club of Amsterdam Journal, April 2005, Issue 45
The Club of Amsterdam Journal appears 2 x per month the future ofNANOTECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY, ICT, PHILOSOPHY, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, MEDICINE, FOOD, MOBILITY, MUSIC, INTERNET, ENERGY, MEDIA, RELIGION, BIOTECH, POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, ARCHITECTURE, LEARNING, SENIOR CITIZENS, DEMOCRACY, SCIENCE, CULTURE Content Sellers as Brand Ambassadors News about Branding News about the Future Next Event Vision…
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