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The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust (Manifesto Series) by [Steele, Robert David]

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust (Manifesto Series) Kindle Edition

by Robert David Steele (Author), Howard Bloom (Foreword)

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What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the good of all, rather than corrupt decisions for the good of the few.

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto is a distillation of author, strategist, analyst, and reformer Robert David Steele life's work: the transition from top-down secret command and control to a world of bottom-up, consensual, collective decision-making as a means to solve the major crises facing our world today. The book is intended to be a catalyst for citizen dialog and deliberation, and for inspiring the continued evolution of a nation in which all citizens realize our shared aspiration of direct democracy—informed participatory democracy. Open-Source Everything is a cultural and philosophical concept that is essential to creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for one hundred percent of humanity. The future of intelligence is not secret, not federal, and not expensive. It is about transparency, truth, and trust among our local to global collective. Only "open" is scalable.

As we strive to recover from the closed world corruption and secrecy that has enabled massive fraud within governments, banks, corporations, and even non-profits and universities, this timely book is a manifesto for liberation—not just open technology, but open everything.

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Publisher: EVOLVER EDITIONS (June 5, 2012)
Publication Date: June 5, 2012
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Language: English
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Ralph H. Peters

Brave, provocative and valuable

June 6, 2012

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Read this compact book in an evening--and think about it for a year. Robert Steele long as been one of our most interesting and challenging thinkers (although his writing is clear--a reflection of clear thought), and this book is a cri de couer, his "Give me liberty, or give me death!" demand that our government, our system and our citizenry rethink the far from benevolent disorder into which we have lured ourselves. My review cannot do justice to the richness of thought compressed in this book. Nor do I agree with every proposition the author raises--that's not the point, which is to spur us to liberated, creative thought. But I very strongly recommend this book to every citizen, no matter his or her political hue, who is unafraid of facing the future and who dares to embrace change. There are many points I'd like to raise from the book, but, to me, an effective review should be reasonably succinct, so I'll limit myself to briefly noting a few of the topics that particularly engaged me: A basic point of Steele's is that "The U.S. government does not study anything holistically. Everything is studied in isolation from all else." As someone with extensive government experience, I certainly can attest to the painful, destructive truth of this point: We're like the fable of the blind men and the elephant, except that we're legions of blind men and the elephant has already fled the zoo by the time we complete our analysis. Some sections of the book are, to me, worth the full price by themselves, not least his discussion of "liberation technology" and his provocative views on how its spread can better aid humanity. Next, his discussion of "panarchy," interconnected self-government(to over-simplify the concept)moves several steps beyond current notions of the viability and utility of connectivity. Another aspect of the book to which I can bear witness is the extensive "fraud, waste and abuse" in our intelligence system (as well as in our government, overall). Steele has made his case for open-source intelligence in previous works, but never so crisply and immediately as here. Wisely, he warns that "Dangers increase as man creates complications and misdirects his energy and resources," reinforcing my own point that an African village would be more resilient in a global crisis than the hyper-complex and hyper-centralized socio-economic system of the United States (this is not a matter of quality of life, but of existential robustness--that village could feed itself long after our national food distribution system had broken down). And as a Sierra Club member, I certainly concur with his statement that "We are deluded in our belief that we can control complexity and predict the outcome of perturbing large systems such as the climate." Much of this, of course, is the result of the "fragmentation of knowledge," of over-specialization and compartmentalization that plagues government and academia as much as it does the intelligence community (which isn't really much of a community in the classic sense). And his call for "intelligence minutemen" has already found preliminary echoes in US hackers who, on their own initiative, have responded to foreign cyber-bullying. I've already pushed this review far beyond an ideal length, so I'll close my inadequate praise of this remarkable, stimulating, sometimes infuriating (in the best sense) book by citing two of his conclusions that go to the heart of the author's concerns: "Empowered by open software, hardware, spectrum, data access, and intelligence, we are within reach of open democracy." And, above all, "Connected we are one."

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The Way Ahead: A Sustainable Future

June 13, 2012

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This is a remarkable book by a remarkable man. Robert Steele is a genuine intelligence expert who has repeatedly put his own integrity and patriotism ahead of personal advancement and gain. Because of this within the barely controlled lunacy of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area in which he resides, he is regarded at best as an eccentric. He is an authentic man in a sea of phonies and self-seeking con artists.

This book is his latest effort to restore a sense of balance to a global society seemingly careening towards a catastrophic collapse. Its basic premise is that "everything is information, information is everything and if we open source everything, we are really opening up all information and all minds..." Steel spends most of this book explaining what he means by this. In the course of doing this he argues that prior to the 21st Century (Epoch A) the world was able to function, however badly, on hierarchical systems of government based on secrecy, exploitation of people, and short sighted policies and programs designed to help small minorities. For the 21st Century (Epoch B) he envisions nothing less than what can be called distributed government based on the collective intelligence of everyone in "broad flexible governance without government being in charge." Clearly Steele has been deeply influenced by his friend and associate Tom Atlee (author of "The Tao of Democracy") who is a strong advocate for what Atlee calls "collective intelligence" in which informed citizens can take charge of their own destinies rather than being dependent on government and other elite `experts' who make decisions for everyone based on limited, often corrupt information. In short this book offers an exciting and absolutely rational way to do nothing less than reorder the world into a human sized `habitat for humanity'.

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A Manifesto for True Change

December 9, 2014

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This is the way everything should be done - with Transparency, Truth, and Trust. What a different world this would be. Robert David Steele outlines a way. It's up to us to elect those who will, by their ethics and integrity do just that, which pretty well means if we recognize the names and faces,they're not the ones we need because nothing, but nothing will change. Same ol' faces; same ol' empty promises.Yawn! If we truly want governance By the People and For the People, then candidates need to come FROM the People and not the 1%. Campaigns need to address actual solutions for specific issues and not generic, placebo vagaries, and stand on platforms of Transparency, no industry funding period, and absolute Truth. When that happens, they will gain the Trust and Respect of The People - the Ones they are elected to represent - and no Vote without those attributes - OR Decentralize Gov't & make it all LocaL! Part of the problem is Long Distance. People who live with a problem usually know how to solve it. It might be time to think about doing just that. Bring it on Home!

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HLW

An excellent model for the future of this planet

July 26, 2016

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An excellent model for the future of this planet! A very interesting concept that could be work, and work very effectively, when the world finally wakes up and realizes that we're currently on a destructive path for our planet that soon won't be changeable, much less reversible. Well written by a writer experience that directly applies to our current world situation.

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Kael Shipman

The author makes some good points, but the tone of the book is ...

October 4, 2016

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The author makes some good points, but the tone of the book is that of a panicked doomsday-sayer. I'd love a more balanced and rigorous iteration of this, with less arms flailing and more statistics and science.

In the end, though, I'm deeply committed to open source, so I'm already sold :).

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Patrick

For those looking for comprehensive solutions to societies problems this ...

December 11, 2014

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For those looking for comprehensive solutions to societies problems this book offers a practical approach which if employed by our leaders would usher in a golden age of growth and prosperity. A quick, informative, and insightful read which is a necessity for any truth seeker looking for ways to improve our society.

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