Book Reviews: “The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace and “The Plot to Hack America”

LaRae LongBooks and Reviews, Articles by Hazel Henderson

Review of Two Books:  “The Darkening Web:   The War for Cyberspace and “The Plot to Hack America” © Hazel Henderson 2017 The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace by Alexander Klimburg, Penguin Press, (2017) The Plot To Hack America by Malcolm Nance, Skyhorse Publishing (2016) In The Darkening Web, author Alexander Klimburg, Program …

“Evolving Info-Structure in Our Information Age” by Hazel Henderson

LaRae LongSustainability News, Advisors' Forum, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Information Technology Issues, Latest Headlines

© Hazel Henderson 2021 All nations evolve their infrastructure along with their peoples’ knowledge and technologies.  From our distant past as small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers, we learned the use of fire to smelt iron and tin — progressing from the Iron Age to the Bronze Age.  We learned to …

Steering social media toward sanity

LaRae LongCommunity Development Solutions, Global Citizen, Sustainability News, Trendspotting, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Latest Headlines

The next few years will be crucial 4 DECEMBER 2020, HAZEL HENDERSON Social media   The global evidence is in: social media platforms based on advertising and profit-maximizing have clearly morphed into monsters threatening all societies and democratic human values, as I described in Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age. From …

“MARKETS’ GROWING PROBLEM TWINS: ADVERTISING and TRADING“

LaRae LongReforming Global Finance, Trendspotting, Articles by Hazel Henderson, Beyond GDP, Ethical Markets Review, Information Technology Issues, Latest Headlines

©2019 Hazel Henderson Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies.  Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper, government-issued fiat and now morphing into today’s crypto currencies.  Today, two familiar offspring of markets: advertising and trading have …

CADMUS: The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age

LaRae LongGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting, Articles by Hazel Henderson

Lead article by Hazel Henderson: ARTICLE | October 31, 2018 | BY Hazel Henderson Abstract Recent evidence is marshalled concerning the impact on democracies of the global explosion of electronic platforms and digital companies, based initially on the US government- supported and now worldwide Internet. These companies, driving Wall Street …

Report of the San Francisco Conference-‘The Future of Money and Technology’, by Marc Strauch

LaRae LongReforming Global Finance, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks, Advisors' Forum, Ethical Markets Review

“Ethical Markets recommends this insightful commentary by Marc Baraka Strauch, MA, MUP, expert on early stage sustainable investing and member of our Advisory Board (marcstrauch@gmail.com).   We asked Marc to represent Ethical Markets at this conference on “The Future of Money and Technology” in San Francisco, December 2017.  This report portrays …

Review Of Two Books ‘Dawn Of The New Everything’ And ‘Hacking Of The American Mind’ Seeking Alpha

Jay OwenBooks and Reviews

Hazel Henderson Green Economy, Circular Economy, energy, natural resources Ethical Markets   Summary Silicon Valley scientist Jaron Lanier turns philosophical guru in “Dawn of the New Everything.” Pediatrician and former public health official Robert Lustig describes human addiction to electronic devices, advertising, drugs, sugar and processed foods. These two books …