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Candidate technologies receiving attention include various quantum functional devices, quantum computing, DNA computing, and molecular electronics explained for molecular diode switches, molecular transistors, and molecular logic gates.
This talk would provide an overview on one such candidate technology based on carbon and other nanotubes.
the novel Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), which differs in design from traditional laser diodes.
This treatment burned out the protein shell and yielded two dimensional arrays of inorganic iron oxide dots on the Si wafer. The size and repeat distance of the dots were 6 and 12 nm, respectively, as measure by FE-SEM and AFM. As the diameter of the iron oxide dots is only 6 nm, this two imensional array of inorganic iron oxide dots has a potential to be used as quantum dots. Feasibility study of the application of this dot array to the structure of semiconductor memory is now in progress.
Fiber Optics to the Home
Fiber optics has helped push the telecommunications system into hyperdrive. But only when fiber connections reach all the way into the home will the technology’s promise be fully realized.
Two sides of freedom :
As Russia struggles to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources, knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs, superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state, or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking, correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore, they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing is not the way to select statesmen.
The town meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment. All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be more responsive because of real competition.
The executive needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and vested interests.
The dictatorship of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality, cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible, disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian, Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services, schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special interests and factions control elections and legislation because there is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign for office.
In other democratic societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern. If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing really can be done under the current structure.
There is a basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based on global experience on what works.
The German Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand and Australia for example.
The mantra of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE - we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False - we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced nothing, WHY ?
The system is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
Symbian, Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents, are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks, such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive. And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system. Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony. This will never happen.
It's a problem crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken, as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software. You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for the masses
In the near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump on it.
The technology to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new school
What could an relevant on-line school be like.
Civilization progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man and
nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation is
discouraged at all levels.
The iron law of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all
schools.
Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but
the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
There are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. ) Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around
functions not disciplines
3.) there is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word is
convergence - Technology, communications, human
organization, marketing, finance, and further explorations of the future rushing in upon
us.
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articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led
by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their
broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial
radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service)
solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing
equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices.
(A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry,
power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a
Imagine a fat monitor similar to the Imax. It plugs into the electrical energy fields system that creates the life force. Electricity made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers possible, and now power the internet. In doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author in the middle.
How about and too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX, virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications systems can communicate with each other. Protocol:
He who controls the interface controls the system.
Wiredbrain's Symbian homepage
Symbian joint venture between Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such as the consoless Sony’s PlayStation 2
The Personal Communications Utility or Appliance
NEXUM PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline to the backbone of the internet.
Then runs everything.
The Star Office is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn’t need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
The standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.
Key word "infrastructure" http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE: Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only
to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the broadband connections really works then personal computers become network devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm a multipurpose
communications and entertainment console.
AOL Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections they will control the content.
The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and
on-line sales provide the profits.
It's not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions, even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermedation.htm
disintermediation means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning. I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
AOL can do what Sears did.
The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
Click here for the emerging history
of
the 21st century .
StarOffice 5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65 MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shipping
http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides
Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic
design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and
database functions. With the release of the new 5.1 version for
worldwide distribution, StarOffice provides significant performance
and feature upgrades that improve user experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations,
drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents,
diagrams, images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and
word.
And
it's free
Research methods for the Internet:
Many students and professionals now use the Internet as a
primary research tool.
There are some simple methods to take
advantage of some of the new technology which enable the research to
create multi-search engine archives and move fairly smoothly through
the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks and are
prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need some basic
tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why not both
? )
Then look at
http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about
5 to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get
an idea of their advantages and limitations.
Then find and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO networks engine is too
unstable and has banners and ads that get in the way but some people
may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have downloaded and
saved these files - open them and check the options to set them for
the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search work like
http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you files so you
don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the sites
and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages ( not too Long )
you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an
unformatted plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other
editing errors that will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have
to remove the line returns or hard returns that break-up sentences
and paragraphs. Otherwise you can highlight the parts you want and
copy and paste. Images can be saved By using the right click in
Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer right click
"save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is
due.
Britain's Keele University,
and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D Memory
System" that promises 3.4 terabytes in a device the size of a
credit card it costing about $48!!
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and
economic transactions. Indeed the time has come for
Global
Money as well as communications .
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of
individuals coupled together by advanced communications technologies
- continues to grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed,
real-world cases poses a significant problem when attempting to
analyze the business potential of linking remote workers in patterns
of
virtual
organization . Such a lack of examples is particularly acute
within the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME -
Cavendish Management Resources - is presented. Both practical and
theoretical insights into new flexible
patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
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Other Voices; Bigger Not Better In Schools
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The
answer to all education problems, ( including violence ) SMALL Smart
Stable Schools
EXCITE
SEARCH
Better
Schools
http://www.wiredbrain.net/pony.htm
Work
in progress -
PORTALS
Social
ergonomics
:
God
and history is on the side of the best social technology:
There is nothing we have done in the air war against
Serbia that couldn't be done by women. Concentration, finesse and
find hand eye coordination are required to conduct
systems
of knowledge wars. The Serbs have the
big muscled grunts on the ground while we have the superior
intelligence in the air.
Systems
of knowledge come from social organization .
Education, research, universities, complex technology companies,
communications, infrastructures both physical and intellectual
produce the best weapons.
Spain's conquest of the Americas,
then the defeat of the Armada were social/technical wins and losses.
If Spain had organized its maritime skills, cannon boring, and
military tactics it might have imposed Catholic religion on England
and the British colonies. The Armada was not destroyed by a great
storm at the hand of God ( a cover story ) but by superior English
and Dutch technology. English guns were more accurate and had better
range. It was the 16th century form of air war, hit the enemy while
you are out of their range.
The winners get to promote their
gods and write history.
When societies need heroes they
produced violent brave men. The age of heroes is over. Societies win
and lose in science and technology, in social organization, in
competitive economic activity.
Technology
is going to make the world around us smart
as
we move away from proprietary architectures to a standards-based
ecology of information.
We
still need a name for the UCD: UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE or
"information - communications - appliance - utility- network
computer, cable or wireless black box modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), play station, boom box,
CD, DVD, VHS, camera, VCR, telephone, wireless, cordless, portable,
TV, radio, pager, laptop, notebook, library, GPS, map, yellow pages,
combat walk and talk and call in air strikes more".
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
for current updates
Indeed,
Yahoo has just announced a strategy to capitalize on this move,
bringing "Yahoo Everywhere" to European mobile phones!
Steve Boom, Yahoo Europe's director of business development, explains
in the June 10 IDG News (
http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=11320
) that,
"We want to make sure
the experience [Yahoo users] get from the phone is a full Yahoo
experience."
And
Yahoo also has designs on set top boxes and other new communicating,
computing, appliances...
Others
are working on moving the Internet right to your pocket as well -
British Telecom, AT&T Wireless and other big players, is now
working towards implementing IP, the protocol that powers the
Internet, right over the airwaves to your pocket cell phone (
http://www.totaltele.com/secure/view.asp?ArticleID=22675&Pub=tt&categoryid=0
). And this, according to Ericsson's
senior manager of wireless strategy Filip Lindell, could
mark,
"...the end of the circuit-switched telecommunications
world."
Such activity is not just taking place in Europe.
Motorola and Sun have entered into an agreement
http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=
mot&script=410&layout=7&item_id=35469
)
to implement a wireless IP infrastructure beginning in 2001 that
would provide the wireless equivalent,
BROADBAND IS HERE
chello broadband n.v. (chello),
www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband internet service provider and an
operating company of United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC),
chello broadband allows cable customers throughout Europe to benefit from the
m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast broadband internet service for a
flat fee each month running across AORTA, Europe's first and largest broadband IP
network and the largest European distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin
sharp pictures and a full range of global, national and local content partners are
offered -- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
"...of
near-infinite dial tone; ...a claim that only the wireline industry
can make today."
The
money is in software now moving from "programs" to content.
The content will be interactive media that includes program
functions. ISP such as AOL, will provide multimedia E-mail as a word
processor that can handle graphics, photographs, soon video and data
files.
The browser becomes a universal systems package do all the
most common functions as plug-ins.
Which
is what StarOffice 5 does. It is a free download from Sun
microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
The USB universal serial bus ties to printers, sound and video
systems, play stations, phones, keyboards and voice commands, other
appliances and services. Microsoft-NBC-General Electric, merge into a
convergence of media and communications services. Time-Warner, the
News Corp., Disney-ABC, are positioning themselves for the
transformation of many business into one.
The current crop of
Internet stocks are unlikely to be very important.
Other
business includes finance, matching buyers and sellers, and a
thousand other ideas and items.
The ISP becomes a bank and travel
agent, department store, and service center. Wal-mart, Sears and
other may need their own ISP. Clients will pay the ISP for telephone
service, cable, lease of hardware, Internet, credit, and may buy
their insurance, tickets, or dishes from a company they trust, so it
all adds up.
A
limited set of functions and libraries in or around a CPU, with the
capacities of a play station, will run a package of on demand
utilities called from the network. Once there is a break in the
bandwidth, your browser can quickly call down any packages it may
need - high speed smart updates means you don’t have to have
everything stored. Office systems can do this now but are afraid to
be pioneers with arrows in their backs. Once Sun, Oracle, IBM or
others really have high performance objective networks there will be
no need for the bloated windows operation systems.
The
market often is as slow as the political process in facing the
inevitable forces of technology and social history. Cartels and
semi-monopolies are the natural outcome of free competition because
organizations can join together to control markets.
The
robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century, such as
Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Stanford, Dupont controlled
steel and oil, railroads and chemicals. General Motors president
Alfred P. Sloan worked with the du Pont's to control the auto market.
A U.S. Court of Appeals finds that Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa)
held a 90 percent monopoly in U.S. aluminum ingot production before
the war, a monopoly enjoyed by the Mellons for more than half a
century. See RCA (NBC - Victor ) below..
Sun's
McNealy portrays perils of running the Wintel 'gauntlet' ) (
Windows/intel )
http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnews2.inp
Scott
McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., one could easily draw the
conclusion that most of the ills in the computer industry stem from
one company and one company only.
The
charismatic McNealy used large portions of his keynote address here
Thursday at Sun's JavaOne developers conference, as well as a
subsequent press conference, to paint Microsoft Corp. as a ruthless
monopoly destroying companies and promoting a flawed business model.
"
The
market economy works until somebody gets so much market power that
they are beyond market principles," he said.
McNealy
said Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop through the Windows
operating system enables it to sell "bloat" like Office
2000 that people have to buy.
"
The
other opportunity it has is to go out and buy little companies that
wouldn't normally be successful, bundle them into their Windows or
Office hairball and use their lock-in and monopoly leverage to make
them successful and drive everyone else out of business,"
McNealy said. "That makes everybody want to sell their company
for a price lower than they want to because if you're not the one
bought, you're done."
One
of the best examples of how new technologies can be dominated by
powerful forces that control standards was the companion development
of hardware ( Radios, phonographs, and then television ) as well as
soft ware, the programming, records and content necessary to sell the
product. People won’t buy radios or TV if there are no stations,
there can’t be stations until people have radios or TVs. RCA
supported the networks in order to sell radios.
Then they made more
from the broadcasting then they did from hardware.
Sarnoff,
David, 1891–1971, American radio and television pioneer; b.
Russia. He worked for the Marconi Wireless Co., winning recognition
as the narrator of the Titanic disaster (1912). After the Radio Corp.
of America absorbed (1921) Marconi, Sarnoff became general manager.
As president (after 1930) and chairman of the board (from 1947) of
RCA, he played a major role in the development of television.
A
superheterodyne circuit developed by U.S. Army Signal Corps major
Edwin Howard Armstrong, 26, became the basic design for all amplitude
modulation (AM) radios. It greatly increases the selectivity and
sensitivity of radio receivers over a wide band of frequencies (see
1906; FM, 1933). Radio Corp. of America (RCA) was founded by Owen D.
Young (see 1919) who loans Ernst Alexanderson to RCA which will
employ him as chief engineer for 5 years (see 1906). RCA acquired the
Victor Co. and become a radio-phonograph colossus but anti-trust
court actions will separate RCA from GE (see VICTROLA, 1906; NBC,
1926). David Sarnoff urges marketing of a simple "radio music
box."
The American Marconi Co. says his plan will make the radio
"a ‘household utility’ in the same sense as the piano
or phonograph" (see 1912; 1920).
American
radio and television pioneer who proposed the first commercial radio
receiver and in 1926 formed the National Broadcasting Company.
The
first vinylite phonograph record appears in October. RCA-Victor
issues a new recording of the 1895 Richard Strauss work Till
Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, but vinylite will not displace
shellac until the perfection of long-playing records (see 1948).
Making
the complex simple and the simple complicated:
Psychology
and social psychology have hundreds if not thousands of "theories'.
This means they don't know what's going on. Any time you have many
ideas and theories it means the facts have not imposed themselves on
imagination.
The subject is subject to theological debates, ad hoc
arguments, the lack of functional laws or hard evidence.
The
fundamentals are that we are a troop animal. Animal behavior is
stable and changes so slowly that our character,
human
nature
has not changed much in the 70,000 years of
organized social existence of our sub-species or breed of homo
sapiens, the Cro-Magnon. The individual depends on the troop, the
lone person or wolf doesn't survive or reproduce. So much for the
romance of Ayn Rand and the glorification of the hero. Social needs
creates in people a vital commitment to the group and the extreme
forces of socialization. We are what we are expected to be by others,
as good Japanese, Navaho, or gang member. We go along to get along.
Our
minds do led us into fanciful desires and creates fanaticism which
requires redoubling effort when reasons have been forgotten.
The
unreasoned passion for glory and power worked in creating slaves,
peasants and masters. As science and technology replace raw courage
and strength, small muscles and finesse empower women, and brains
over brawn, the slaves have new opportunities and political power.
The democracy of very productive and therefore financially profitable
peasants, workers and ginks has less room for people noted for feats
of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or
sacrificed his or her life with grand gestures and grand illusions.
The
application of social ergonomics is to make people more conformable
and functional in groups, institutions such as schools, business,
social clubs and neighborhoods. A chair is designed to work with the
body, instruments with hand eye coordination, rooms with furniture
and functions, why not social systems with human nature as people.
Architects noticed that big monumental spaces or rooms were empty,
unused, people didn't feel conformable in their designs .
They began
to design with nature taking our character and desires into account,
the addition of the human scale. BIG Schools are monuments to bad
planning and blind bureaucracies.
They are ahuman and very
uncomfortable as the worse factories or industrial office.
It's
corny, of course it's trite. We are a civilization founded by heroes
but run by the mundane. Post modern liberal democratic free market
societies are temporal, secular, corny. This was pointed out by
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, as a society,
dependent on association and group membership with great pressures
for conformance to the mass will.
The individual in America was
independent as they are dependent on the market.
Why
Rush and his Republican Allies are wrong:
Three
Themes:
one:
The Cultural Wars - Long haired hippie
phobia ;
There
is a carry over from the anti-war movements of the 1960’s now
called internationalist, socialist utopian, environmental Wacos,
Fem.- nazi, who criticize the country and its established
institutions.
Wrong:
There is a touch of racism, sexism, homophobia,
associated with protest, change, civil rights, reform, and
environmental concerns.
The politics of attack and criticism
worked for Newt for awhile because there was a deep loss of faith in
the ruling elite .
because the anti-war people were
right, Vietnam was a stupid, evil enterprise based on ignorance,
arrogance and false pride. The liberation and environmental movements
are useful and correct in their objectives, and are popular.
two:
Man and Superman - the power of
positive thinking ;
The origins of
romantic fascism is that there are the creators, noble individuals
who act upon the world and others while the masses who are controlled
by big institution are acted upon, there are the few leaders and many
followers, from Overman and Beyondman hardly seem likely names for a
superhero, but perhaps Overman might be "leaping tall buildings
at a single bound" had the German word Übermensch been
translated differently than it was. However, Nietzsche's term for the
ideal superior man was translated into English as superman, first
recorded in a work by George Bernard Shaw published in 1903. Ayn Rand
used the idea in her novels as the architect, steel industrialist,
railroad builder, an industrial giant among midgets.
WRONG:
Dale
Carnegie, 1888+1955 American educator known for his self-improvement
book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936). Produced methods
where everyman could become a hero, a leader, supermen for the great
middle class. Fulton J. Sheen and Nightingale made the power of
positive thinking into a industry.
The age of the knight or lone hero never really existed and is
clearly past.
three:
Liberty cults - guns and
anti-government feelings ;
The
Scots and Irish brought a deep resentment of England, landlords and
the ruling classes, Southerner are often also Scot-Irish who resent
the Yankees, Germans by the Poles, Poles of the Russians, Christians
of Jews, so there has been an abiding anti-government passion in
America from the beginning.
WRONG:
Government has a critical role to play in
civilized society.
The issues are how to do thing well rather than
badly. We have a national health system, it doesn’t work and is
very expensive; we have a national industrial policy based on lobbies
and special interests.
Four:
The real issues are complex and
organizational, not slogans and one linears.
Fundamentalism -
The
13th century is replaced by science, secular, technological society
and can not return. God and history is against it.
Close
your eyes and visualize a group of people working or playing
together. Imagine a productive social group such as a sports team, a
work group, a team of volunteers, a military unit, a dance group or
theater playhouse or any group of people working together even a
family unit.
Spend
a moment and watch what is going on.
What
is the size of the group ?
How
much direction or leadership is there ?
How
do people coordinate their activities ?
Do
all or most seem to know what they are doing ?
Do
they know what others are doing ?
Do
they appear to share goals ?
Did
anyone see a classroom or any educational activity ?
Why
not - ?
Breaking
a big school into small human scale schools is not expensive or
difficult !
The
library and sports teams can be campus wide such as they are at
Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
These ancient institutions are
made up of small collages that are completely independent but share
the university lecturer, the library and the rowing teams. Since
sports are the most important reason for big schools no change is
required in athletic, band or other programs that need size.
Big
schools were sold in the 1950 as being modern and being able to offer
a wider curriculum and specialized classes. This rarely happens - how
many schools have third year foreign language or physics ? BUT
communications technology and the rise of the community college has
made size irrelevant. Special classes can be offered "campus or
district wide" or taken at the community college. Florida High
School - an on-line service offers Latin and other subject rarely
taught at the largest schools.
So
all you do is devise a way of sharing the power and authority and
using computers to process paper.
The learning, physical,
emotionally, language, challenged can be reported, tracked, planned
and tested by Information systems rather than mounds of forms in
triplicate. * even using voice recorded reports as doctors have
learned to do.
The
second contradiction in future global society, after population and
environment, are between technology and social psychology. While
there is a growing understanding of human machine interface (
ergonomics ) there is little understanding of how Information
Technology ( IT ) effects social organization.
The thesis and
antithesis of factories and liberal democratic capitalism systems vs.
traditional aristocratic agricultural cultures has given way to open
standards vs. traditional middle class "family" values.
While
the society has become more open due to competition there has been
severe disruptions due to social system failures.
The psychosocial
functions of families, clans, tribes, communities, religions, clubs
and associations have not been replaced by functional alternatives.
Social disruption surface as the social pathology of single parents,
stress, crime, psychopathic diseases of all kinds. Institutional
weakness on a global scale displays structural cracks in the
foundations of business, legal, educational, political, military and
religious authority upon which the economy rests.
All
social
animals
have patterns
of behavior which are very difficult to change. While we can breed
dogs that look very different they all retain certain of the wolf’s
habits.
There are biological "groves" pre-wired in us as a
breed including
grammars
of language
and social relationships which define us as humans.
These have not
changed
.
The
applied science of
Psychosocial
ergonomics
designs
social systems in the "grooves" of human nature for the
school, office organization or workplace, intended to maximize
productivity by reducing social stress and social breakdown or
discomfort. Also called
biotechnology,
human engineering, human factors engineering
.
.
It
takes time:
Sometimes
three generations - for example, urban sprawl boomed after WW II with
the auto age, housing developments, " The grass grows greener
over the septic tank" , malls and social isolation from
depersonalized life styles.
The first generation came from
multi-person networks of family, community, church, and school.
Their
children were the baby boomers born from 1948 to 1964.
The children
of the suburbs had parents, who came from older communities, and had
expectations and standards which sometimes the children valued.
The
children of baby boomers, however, suffer from the sins of their
parents and grandparents who valued real estate and consumer values
over stability, family, community, sex, drugs and rock-a-roll or any
other ideology.
At
the same time old high schools were converted into Jr. High's then
Middle Schools and new BIG high schools were built as part of the
auto culture. The first generation suffered but is some style.
The
second generation still had teachers and administrators and school
board members from a more stable time with actual standards.
The
third generation of baby boomer's children had teachers from the
lowest quartile of academic ability as smarter people, largely women,
found better jobs as lawyers, doctors, accountants, rather than be
stuck as school teachers with no clear lines of advancement. Teachers
with 30 years make 1/3 to 1/2 more than beginning teachers rather
than 3 to 4 times the difference between beginning salary and
becoming a partner.
They are all paid the same regardless of their
skill level, coaches or science, or their performance.
They often do
not have telephones, copy machines, clean rooms, offices, support
services and supplies and other objects of today's professional.
Teaching is seen as a low status blue collar job with union
protection of the lazy and incompetent. Schools spend 50 % on
overhead, outside classrooms. Most of the 1/2 of which is caused by
"special" students with dozens of types and regulations
that add nothing to learning.
Small
schools, public, charter, voucher, will help make up for the cultural
gaps caused by rapid growth suburbs, television, video games, the
fractured nucleus of families, and other social decay. It takes a
1000 years to build a civilization and only a few generations to
decline, depending on how deep the culture is among the people.
FOR
EXAMPLE
At
school, Klebold and Harris openly admired Hitler, hurled insults at
minorities and conducted a running feud with the school's athletes.
In the presence of adults, however, they were polite and friendly.
Klebold
lived in a home worth nearly $400,000, a modernistic cedar-and-glass
structure tucked between two huge stone formations on a rural road.
His
father, Thomas Klebold, 52, is a former geophysicist who now runs a
mortgage management business from his home. His mother, Susan, 50,
has worked for the Colorado community-college system for years,
helping disabled students gain access to education.
His
maternal grandfather, the late Leo Yassenoff, was a prominent Jewish
philanthropist in Columbus, Ohio,
The Columbus Dispatch reported
today.
The Jewish Community Center of Columbus was named for him.
Organizing
Schools into Small Units:
EXCITE
SEARCH
Small
schools - HS schools under 500, middle schools under 250, and
elementary under 125 - have almost no problems with discipline and
perform much better.
There are so few of these schools ( even in
rural areas ) that the numbers are difficult - but it makes sense -
everyone knows everyone - they can't fall between the cracks -
The
critical elements are that students have to apply to a school ( theme
schools, technology, science and math, arts, etc.) and can be
"selected out". If no other school will take them they are
assigned to alternative education.
Second,
the goals are set but the means are open. If the students can pass
external exams there are no rules about hours, teacher
requirements, credits etc. Now we require means but not outcomes - it
should be the other way around.
A
building is not a school.
It
can be made into many schools
. -
you
can take a 2000+ school such as in Colorado and divide it into five
schools - real schools ( not pretend houses or teams ) as has been
done for 25 years at
Harlem
Community
School District 4, East Harlem, New York.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/answer.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/gvs2.htm
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http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ethos/small.txt
1.
Clear Goals
2.
School-Focused Improvement
3.
Strong Leadership
4.
High Expectations
5.
Focused Program of Instruction
6.
Collaborative Decision-Making
7.
Individual & Organizational Development
8.
Order & Discipline
9.
Maximized Learning Time
10.
Parent/Community Involvement
11.
Incentives/Rewards for Academic Success
12.
Careful and Continuous Evaluation
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