Nuclear Threat = Noise
The threat of nuclear weapons in the modern era isn’t coming from countries that can reduce or eliminate their nuclear weapons stockpiles.
It’s the ones that can’t that should concern you. (And the Moore’s law accelerated proliferation of previoiusly ‘controlled’ nuclear knowledge and capabilities.) Still, this is a tougher nut to crack than bio or chem weapons because of a reliance on rare substances.
N. Korea + Missile = Noise
Feel free to ignore.
ReadyMade Magazine
It’s a great read for this economy.
It’s full of useful directions on how to repurpose salvaged furniture, clothes etc but also great in-depth articles on indie entrepreneurs.
I’d love to write an article for them on the security imperative for accelerating the adoption of these activities.
Additions to the Antilibrary
Jeff Rubin, formerly Chief Economist of CIBC, and a fantastic resource for understanding global contraction, has written a new book titled “Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization” which comes out in May. Hopefully ongoing collapse hasn’t undermined the premise of the book.
Also, “The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger,” by Marc Levinson looks like it should be interesting, perhaps get some thinking going on platforms.
China: Hacking the Education Machine
If education is treated as the product of a factory system, innovation becomes a function of resistance to the system rather than the output. In this case, the innovation took the form of starting a gray market within the machine.
One group of parents, some of them local officials, persuaded a teacher to fax them the questions once the exam got under way.
They had organised six university students to answer them.
They sent these answers using mobile phones to their children in the exam hall who were wearing tiny earpieces.
Another man had employed more high-tech equipment.
He bribed a student taking the same exam as his son to get him the questions using a miniature scanner.
He had nine teachers on standby to answer them.
He then transmitted the answers back to the two boys taking the exam.
A third scam involved a teacher at the school who had charged hundreds of dollars to get the answers to students but whose equipment failed.