Stock Exchange of Visions

"Stock Excchange of Visions creates a dialogue between world's brightest minds and a broader audience interested in the future of our planet."

This is an interesting site!

Intelligence Led Policing

:The central aim of this book is to bring the concepts and processes of intelligence-led policing into better focus, so that students, practitioners and scholars of policing, criminal intelligence and crime analysis can better understand the evolving dynamics of this new paradigm in policing. The main audience are professionals within the law enforcement environment; senior officers, middle management, analysts and operational staff."

This is the first book on "Intelligence-Led Policing." The author also has PowerPoint slides to supplement the text at this website.

Real trouble in virtual worlds

Here is an interesting article on crime in virtual worlds...

International Policing Toward 2020

The National Academies Press

There are a number of free reports that may be of interest to futurists at this web site.

Creative Strategic Intelligence Analysis and Decision Making Within the Elements of National Power - Proteus Futures Workshop

"The workshop’s overall goal was to provide scholars from various organizations across the Department of Defense, the interagency, academia, and private and corporate sectors the opportunity to present papers on topics and issues that explore complexity in the future global security environment and its discrete threats and opportunities, as well as to examine Proteus related new and innovative concepts, strategies, and processes to meet United States national security challenges in the 21st Century."

Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing

"To date, there hasn't been an overarching theory of how the human brain really works, Jeff Hawkins argues in this compelling talk. That's because we still haven't defined intelligence accurately. But one thing's for sure, he says: The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next. Bringing this new brain science to computer devices will enable powerful new applications -- and it will happen sooner than you think."

Watch this talk and think about how the concepts apply to police futurists....

Read related article:
Jeff Hawkins and the Brain CNNMoney.com March 6, 2007
"The creator of the PalmPilot and the Treo is at it again. But his latest startup, Numenta, isn't just making another gadget. It's attempting to fuse silicon and gray matter to produce the ultimate intelligent machine."

Jeff Hawkin's 2005 book "On Intelligence"
"From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness.In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways.Written with acclaimed science writer Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence promises to completely transfigure the possibilities of the technology age. It is a landmark book in its scope and clarity."