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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: data brokers are like the Wild West — untamed and without governance.
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If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.
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War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
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Learning is an innate human behavior. A healthy baby is happy and excited to learn to speak, play and express itself. Why should learning stop being fun? The human race cannot survive without continuous learning. Let us impart the enthusiasm and creativity of learning in the classrooms.
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Regardless of how secure a communication line is and how unbreakable a cryptographic algorithm seems to be, the weak links are often the endpoints - the sender (before encryption) and the recipient (after decryption) - unless they are code talkers using a language more obscure than Navajo.
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The levers of power have been tipping toward the public, thanks to social media.
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Morning newspapers are yesterday's news; social media news are the now moments.
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Give a human face to drug users and understand why they need narcotics is the only chance that we have to win the war on drugs.... Give a human face to terrorists and understand why they resort to violence is the only chance that we have to win the war on terror.
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Better information awareness does not mean less personal freedoms. Feeling safe in school is a prerequisite for a conducive learning environment. Everyone should be free to express their opinions, voice their concerns, and become better informed.
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Deadly weapons as big as a missile-equipped drone and as small as a.50-caliber bullet are now under software control, which could be disastrous if they were hacked.
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Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.
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Terrorism is metastasizing like cancer in the global body of humanity.
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The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing in renewable clean energy, and solving a host of other important challenges facing humanity.
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In the digital world, delete does not always delete.
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To err is human. AI software modeled after humans will inevitably make mistakes. It is fine as long as the software learns from its errors and improves itself, which is something that humans ought to learn from AI. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, wrote in "Case of Voluntary Ignorance" in Collected Essays (1959): "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
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As citizen journalists and bloggers are becoming more important in news gathering and timely dissemination, mainstream media has found an important ally in the Fifth Estate.
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It is pointless to debate which religions promote peace or violence. Even Buddhist monks who are widely regarded as pacifists have taken up arms in strife-torn regions... Religious experiences are, by nature, emotional and subject to interpretations by clergy and believers throughout history.
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Experiencing a melting pot of cultures within an immediate or extended family on a daily basis is nothing less than marvelous, stimulating, and conducive to personal growth.
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Only time will tell if serendipity becomes zemblanity as consumers are constantly bombarded by advertisements.
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The most effective propaganda is a mixture of truths, half truths, and lies.
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Each and everyone on Earth can make one small step, which will cumulatively result in a giant leap for mankind towards world peace.
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Trying to get rid of the symptoms (terrorists) without paying attention to the root cause (terrorist motives) does not eradicate the disease but may instead exacerbate it.
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Media manipulation is commonplace. For people who do not look outside their comfort zone, they will never learn the whole truth. If scientists had not challenged the status quo, we would not have enjoyed modern medicine and technological innovations today.
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It is conceivable that AI will be able to understand all the news and investigative reports in all languages from both traditional and social media, connect the dots, predict imminent dangers, and identify long-term concerns.
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While Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) helps prevent World War III, Total Information Awareness (TIA) offers insights into some of the biggest challenges facing humanity.
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
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Newton Lee is a computer scientist who is an author and administrator in the field of education and technology commercialization.
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