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This article has been republished from The Star newspaper, Johannesburg. Ramon Thomas will be speaking on Channel Islam on Sunday, 18 March 2012 at 10h30 discussing solutions based on 19 years of experience on the Internet.
The more advanced the technology, it seems, the more imaginative the con. Unless you’re a recluse with no internet, cellphone, bank card or car, you will have encountered a fraudster intent on scamming you. The more advanced the technology, it seems, the more imaginative the con.
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This week we have another guest post from Jon Rappoport, creator of the Logic & Analysis course.
WINDOW ABOVE THE BRAIN AND THE MAGIC THEATER
--for Tim Leary, after reading his autobiography, Flashbacks--
OCTOBER 31, 2011. I have written essays that make it clear the brain can't be the seat of thought if you want to retain the concept of free will. It's a rather easy argument.
The activity of the brain is electrical and chemical and biological. Messages flow. Patterns are established. The brain Read More →
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Let's say the majority of your business comes from word-of-mouth. Good for you!
It means that most of your past or current clients like your product or service. So you're doing something right. But what you're not doing is any other marketing... So it's possible that there's no other way for you to get clients. And that's not good.
Here's a brilliant message, by Peter Carruthers, on the subject:
Whenever I talk to some intrepid entrepreneur about finding Read More →
In 2007 I came a TED Fellow after attending TEDGlobal also known as TEDAfrica in Arusha, Tanzania. This has been a wonderful journey and many relationships have blossomed with TEDsters all over the African content. It's with great pleasure that I share this announcement from Chris Anderson below.
Dear Global TED Community,
By now you may have heard of the annual conference in India that has lots of links to TED.
The INK Conference (which stands for INnovation and Knowledge) is being Read More →
There is a growing need to identify the symptoms you experience when using Internet and mobile technology for extended periods. This a new direction that mental disorders are taking and psychologists and psychiatrists, as well as counsellors from organisations like Childline or LifeLine need to be prepared to deal with this. Professor Sherry Turkle in a TEDx talk joked about "phantom vibration syndro." which so many people in my recent talks for Omnia Fertaliser resonated with.
- Ramon Thomas
Internet Addiction Disorder or IAD is an impulse Read More →
APRIL 20, 2011. Futurists are inclined to predict a world in which AI (artificial intelligence) will take over a major portion of what is now human activity. In a matter of decades, for example, they say one computer will have more capacity than all the human brains on the Read More →