The Abortion and Sentient Question
Opening Insights: Principles and Communication In 2017 amidst student chaos and protests, Ben Shapiro was invited as a Guest Speaker to UC Berkeley. During his talk he was asked by a student to defend his [...]
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Rupert Murdoch is The Media’s Unlikely Hero in The War Against Facebook and Google
Opening Insights: Murdoch vs. Facebook While many have demonized Rupert Murdoch over the years, the truth and integrity of the man have often been overshadowed by his cunning business strategy and celebrity presence. The world [...]
Should We Fear ‘the End of Work’?
Opening Insights: Making Sen$e In a 2012 report on the show "Making Sen$e" by Paul Solman explored “Man vs. Machine.” In this report he examined the future of the American worker and asked the question: Will Human [...]
Carl Sagan Wrote in 1995 What He Feared the Future Would Look Like, and It’s Seemingly Come True
Opening Insights: A Frightening Future Many people have warned us! Some of us have listened. Some of us have heard. Yet, few of us have taken action to stop the trend. Warnings alone do little [...]
Humans Have 27 Distinct Emotional States, Study Finds
Opening Insights: How Many Emotions? We are a very feeling/emotional driven world, at least we have been socially engineered to be. Our vulnerability to emotion has been used on a macro (government, media, entertainment, marketing and [...]
The Testing Time – By Paul Harvey
Opening Insights: Reality of War, Taxes and Government Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009), better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He was [...]
Want to Sound Like a Leader? Start By Saying Your Name Right | Laura Sicola | TEDxPenn
Opening Insights: Leaders are Trained, Not Born Communication is an important part of life, however, the art of speaking and communicating is quickly becoming a lost art in our current generations. Communication is an art [...]
Intel’s New Self-Learning Chip is Designed to Work Like a Human Brain
Opening Insights: Will AI Replace Us? Artificial Intelligence is here. The question is, will it help us, or replace us? As intelligence increases in machines the line between programing and thinking begins to blur. What [...]
James Cameron Sounds the Alarm on Artificial Intelligence and Unveils a ‘Terminator’ for the 21st Century
Opening Insights: Let Me Entertain You People ask me, 'Will the machines ever win against humanity?' I say, 'Look at people on their phones. The machines have already won. JAMES CAMERON Artificial Intelligence is not going to [...]
Here’s Why Associations are Primed for a Digital Renaissance
Opening Insights: Opportunities on the Horizon The power of associations is irrefutable, yet like the tides they need to change with the times if they are to survive. The Hill article by Paul Freedman, CEO [...]
Your Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed
Opening Insights: Battle for Your Thoughts There is a war going on. There is a war going on that is much more insidious than the likes of physical and racial violence. There is a war [...]
Digital Transformation: Catch the Wave!
Opening Insights: Ready for Change? Change is on the horizon. Are you and your organization ready to not only implement digital transformation, but to become a part of it? Informational Insights: Digital Transformation is Today [...]
How to Build a Company Where the Best Ideas Win
Opening Insights Ray Dalio is the founder, chair and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the biggest hedge fund in the world, and leader in portfolio management. In his TED Talk titled How to build [...]
Facebook Allowed Advertisers to Target ‘Jew Haters’
Opening Insights: Okay to Hate It has come to light that Facebook let advertisers target users interested in anti-Semitic topics. Facebook is embarrassed. Really? The problem with embarrassment is that there is no admission of [...]
Face-reading AI Will Be Able to Detect Your Politics and IQ
Opening Insights: Dangers of Technology In 2012, a U.S. Army Research Laboratory funded study, led by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, presented a paper demonstrating how activity forecasting would work. The study focused on the "automatic detection [...]
The Neuroscience of Change
Opening Insights: Change Your Mind A You Are Not So Smart article/podcast by David McRaney, dated January 13, 2017, explores the realities of the neuroscience of changing our minds. The article touches on the problems [...]
What is the Backfire Effect?
Opening Insights: Backfire Effect A WhatIs.com article by Margaret Rouse, dated July 19, 2017, briefly defines the realities of the "backfire effect" and its relation to data analytics. Informational Insights: Resisting Reality The backfire effect [...]
Facts Don’t Win Arguments: The Backfire Effect
Opening Insights: Renouncing Erroneous Opinions I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all [...]
American Idiot: Rethinking Anti-intellectualism in The Age of Trump
Opening Insights: Anti-Thinking Age An Open Democracy article by Nicholas Baer, dated August 28, 2017, highlights the realities of the growing anti-expert, anti-intellectual climate that has taken hold of the U.S. and world. The article highlights [...]
Why Mark Zuckerberg SHOULD NOT BE the Next President
Opening Insights: No Value for Morals and Ethics A New York Post article by John Crudele, dated August 27, 2017, voices a concern that many people have over the political aspirations of certain successful millennials, [...]