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The accelerating rate of change forecast more change in the next century than in the last 10,000 years.

The increases in the rate of change between paradigms began at about 5000 years as ideas spread slowly - domestic animals, agriculture, metallurgy, then cities, bureaucracy and empires - then 500 years - printing, navigation, mathematics, deep mining up to the 18th century.

Then 100 years with potatoes, steam and steel, electric and chemical, communications and computers. Now in 25 years ideas are activated that used to take a century, then 12.5 years will have a century of 20th century progress, then 6.25 years what used to take a century and so forth.

The acceleration of the rate of change has been going on for a long time - it just gets faster and faster.



Therefore if Nano computer would have taken 50 years in the past it can be done in 12.5 years.

The speed of application of stem cells to build body parts, cloned cells used as normal therapies, use of immunization in treatments of ongoing virus infections and cancers, genetic engineered plants and animals as a normal accepted process, all being implemented at great speed. Even in a slow bulky industries such as cars - the fuel cell will move along more quickly than such technologies would have in the past. This really effects markets, marketing, and business planning in very fundamental ways.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/index.shtml go to weekly then global business at the bottom of page


The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil (Paperback - January 2000)


The Age of Spiritual Machines : When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil (Hardcover - January 1999)

Darwin Among the Machines :

The Evolution of Global Intelligence (Helix Books) by George B. Dyson (Paperback - October 1998)


http://www8.bcity.com/book_bargains/spiritual_machines.htm

XML: the most powerful productivity tool ever imaged:



I can write this text, I could insert picture or sound. I can create links ( hyper- links ) or imbedded functions ( scripts in several languages ) - e-mail it or post it to a web site that has scripts to run different functions. It is getting easier but still has lots of bugs.


Microsoft is again in a catch up position. Power corrupts and the lack of real time painful competition is what corrupted power means.

The NOISE group of Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Corel and Everyone else had the model right years ago. With bandwidth ( such as private networks - intranets, extra-nets, and other high speed networks ) the network becomes the system. Each member of the system - clients and servers are integrated through common languages or objects.


When you open a web page, hypertext and imbedded objects can connect functions - edit, ( word processing ) analyze ( search, data bases ) and interoperate with each other using voice, images, data and text.

The idea is that a person interested in the service manual for a piece of equipment or operational system - a service engineer or client at a PC, or in the field using a lap top, wireless phone or other device not only could look up information but order parts, update systems, see graphic display, talk to experts, hold a meeting between the consultant and the providers and the home system would gather information about what is going on and what works and what doesn’t.


Providers of services - software, engineering, analysis, B2B, OEM, etc.. could all deal with each other using different languages, platforms and systems. This is the most powerful productivity tool ever imaged. System can adjust and improve in real time. A contractor in the field can order supplies from the best low cost provider, check delivery, pay accounts, check balances, talk to sub-contractors, revise plans and schedules, have the design changed and fixed, and 1000 and more details. No one can build a house without a cell phone - can any service be provided without real time communications ?


Who can do this unless they spend lots of money for services and software ?

The service providers can MS.net, oracle.net, IBM.net Sun.net, AOL.net, apple.net, excite.net, go.net, yahoo.net, - plug and play just like the cell phone. For $ 50 a month your ISP becomes an interactive system to other services.

The contractor enters his phone book, calendar, and buys services from engineers, accountants, and get free services from suppliers, banks, sub contractors, etc. Those connected have a great advantage over those out of the loop.


How about a search attached to stories.

The idea of references is still useful but you can also do a up to the minute search by a hyper text link that includes the key words -



http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654Cpage=create



http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C&page=show&topic=Nano%20Technology&sb=summary



Windows in the cloudy sky:


What Microsoft wants to do is control the servers with a MS provided next, next generation NT platform operating system called XML but not open and universal.

The .net system works with devices that have .net codes built it. Microsoft products will run on .net as a server - client interface - XML files, XML data base, XML storage, XML index, id, calendar, updates, notifications, out in the cloud on MS XML server software doing object imbedded co and enable businesses, knowledge workers and consumers to employ technology on their own terms.


See cloudy vision in http://www.wiredbrain.net/gates.htm


year Bill Gates ( reference to HTML ) Building Internet Applications Professional Developers Conference San Francisco -- March 13, 1996

http://www.wiredbrain.net/bill-g.htm


Maybe the only place to find these remarks


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.


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Futures Links


Excite TelecommunicationsImportant and Interesting Larry Ellison of Oracle on :


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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.

Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules


If physicist Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value. I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads, automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political system.

The new world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -

http://mediafusioncorp.net/


http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm


http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm



http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm

disintermedation 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.

Low Orbit satellites beam down to earth


- Communications, media, the nature of work and the wealth of nations.

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book.htm

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Tomorrows story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:

As important as the transistor ?

Imagine 3.4 terabytes in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!

Videos would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel, using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.

The connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door ), or recording that recharge themselves.

Fast transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic transactions. Indeed the time 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/

While it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could be on the market in two years!

According to CMR (

http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html ), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid state, and has a different operating approach."

And to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power storage solution "...can be put onto virtually every surface," essentially providing massive data storage for almost anything.

Indeed, CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"

The technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."

It also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second, could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?

Of course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.

IF this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density" hopes, imagine the implications: storage could become so inexpensive and so pervasive that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant wealth.

Note that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations, this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to "change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.

In the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...

Ah, how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (

http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7 )

[Image - Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg ]

It was the size of a matchbox.

Now, but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches in that box!

[Image - U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server -

http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg

Brought to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory, serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes this accomplishment in more detail -

http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html . And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.

Of course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers, so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling" just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.

In fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly not all that far away...

Wisdom:


The Wisdom Page - see also

color codes to knowledge

What is wisdom ? Contains more than good judgment or common sense, because in is based on perspective.

The central element of what is called "wisdom" is analysis of complex wholes derived from perspective all the way to China and the direct experience of universals. If you have some sense of what you know and what you don’t know, what can be known and what can not be known and how to cope with the great middle ground of uncertainty with dynamic change.

It in one way wisdom is the opposite of provincial, traditional, authoritarian, dogmatic, cultural bound, habit driven, narrow minded, closed minded, optioned, talk show, mass media, popular culture, conventional, "common sense" popular folkways. It is also not derived by elite, special privileges of the ruling classes. While animals, children, peasants, the wind and rain contain wisdom they are not to best guides to effective action but all of this is included in good judgment.

Wisdom is as wisdom does, stupid is as stupid does according to the wisdom of Forest Gump.

Wisdom is today’s world involves many scientific and technical issues. If wisdom is a form of certain knowledge, information plus understanding of the models and systems which order and display the underlining causes of apparent action. Things are not what they seem then - physics: must be the foundation of systems thinking.

Atoms: Look think more deeply then look think again

Matter is not created or destroyed but changes form.

The first form was and is pure energy, then energy in the form of light, then energy as electrical magnetic fields or strings which then take the forms of atoms. Material objects are mostly space with captured energy in the form of fields of atoms connected to each other by strong and weak forces.

The material world is an illusion of solid material things but really is the dance of energy fields.

LIFE:

Crisis and opportunity

Within our global environment, life has shaped a biosphere based on carbon, oxygen - water, air, solar energy. Most of life are microbes. Micro-organisms from complex networks including shared DNA. DNA is not an uncommon property of the universe but takes different forms with different setting.

The planet earth is hospitable to the work of DNA in creating a prosperous environment for itself called the biosphere.

Evolution:

Big and little bangs

Material collected in space form solar systems by being pulled together into larger masses - the process involves as collisions between objects of different sizes.

The biosphere is the product of experience with extinction. Biological material finds stability within any stable system but with adjustments to changing conditions. When the opportunity arrives by mass extinction, the survivors move into the empty slots or niches by rapid evolutionary changes. Most of the time evolution doesn’t matter much as patterns of live form dynamic ecologies .

Wired Brain:

The importance of just talk

Humans are very new being with only a few million years of experience. Turtles have 100’s of millions of years practice and micro-organisms billions. Thinking and talking people can use the communications of abstraction as the distinctive human ability. This ability appeared rather suddenly about 100,000 years ago. Some of the unused visual capacity of the left brain was transferred to a pre-wired speech center called the "wiredbrain".

Catch-on factor:

Learning organizations


The ability to communicate abstractions - how to - how to do more and better with less danger and uncertainty produced an technological revolution from 30,000 BC to the present day. First domestic animals, dogs moved in with people, knowing a good deal when they saw one. Fishing and hunting methods improved to the point of extinction of some of the less smart big game.

The ability to learn new ways without too quickly abandoning traditions helps in organizational success.

Tribal:

Sharing common values

Tribal rules and laws are a technological tool for survival. How to includes farming and hunting, fishing and gathering; marriage, authority systems, beliefs in church and state, personal hygiene, diet, dress, ceremony, gift giving, coming of age - and the dozens of common tribal elements devised by "human Nature" and experience. Magic is science under low levels of understanding or control.

These laws and customs come from the "dream-time" where people with talent for special connections converse with dreams to "catch-on" to long term patterns in their lives. This inspirational talent is one of many special talents distributed in populations - academic, music, graphics, athletic and dance, social, leadership, mystical and magical, mathematical, much more than IQ is needed for tribal or business or educational success.

Synergy is the tribal habits of sharing - everyone benefits from tribal success. If the benefits are shared then there is a lot more interest in participation.

Empires: Rules and rulers

Civilization is the management of large scale organization by rational process.

The masses maybe motivated by magic, evangelical emotional religion and products, but the top management must have a large center of reason, technological competence, and a higher education into complex systems, or stupid comand and control succumb quickly to institutional entropy.


The training in methods of wisdom or systems thinking is higher education for ruling classes that introduced concepts foreign to the masses.

The rules are different for the ruled in knowledge of the internal language, secret codes to foreign intelligence. It started in small secret societies and the methods were made into a craft or guild of the "knowing" alchemist of the soul. Rulers had to have virtue, merit, and character to abstract their own needs and desires from the good of the empire. Selfish, badly behaved rulers such as those in the decline of Rome or of Spain, and France, and England and US - fail in synergy - the motivation of the shared values and rewards of victory and poor systems thinking means poor systems management.

Liberal Education:


The liberal arts were the intellectual and moral training of rulers. Character came from example, reason, and tradition not blind belief in the authoritative word of GOD. Founding fathers used Masonic codes to organize committees of public safety, then a rebellion against the established order of church and state.

They started on the foundation of a logical and rational NOT religions beliefs.

They formed a more perfect technological republic based on applied political and social theory; the balance of power and the power of talk - debate, free press and limited government.


The Change to the technological ruling class:

Owners have been replaced by doers - and doers by ginks.

The critical person is the CTO - chief technology officer. Technical training is not a liberal art - and the coffee mill BA or MBA doesn’t do much for the moral and political, civic character of graduates.

The rulers of the technology need

wisdom training quick and fast because they don’t have much time for such silliness.

Real people, real schools:

We have 15,000 school boards and committees.

They oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.

There is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables, reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.

These standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what they are expected to know or do.

They are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.


The reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready for post secondary education.

What it would take to made schools work is no mystery.

The secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents, principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad grades, will be held back !

There is no way that is popular.

The student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault, it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity contest.

State and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools, and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards. NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults, you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot of bitching.

As everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year, or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior, learning - like the real world.

Religion and theology

[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.


Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.

Religion is one area of human experience, theology is another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics is about power, Ideology about beliefs.

We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control of choices in life, government, education, health and science.

People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.

They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.

Politics is one thing, ideology is another.


Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead, influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion, desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what we do.


Theology is about power in the church as an institution - Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.

Ideology is about control of social power by law and police and military force.

The God police of the Christian activists would control the bedrooms and doctors offices,

The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees of China,

The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.

Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions - sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.

OUT of the box -


In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a more perfect union.

People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.

They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.

  • 1Cor.13
  • [1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
  • [2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
  • [3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
  • [4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
  • [5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
  • [6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
  • [7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
  • [8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
  • [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
  • [10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
  • [11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
  • [12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
  • [13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
  • 1Cor.8
  • [1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
  • [2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
  • [3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
  • 1Cor.10
  • [1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
  • [2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
  • [3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
  • [4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
  • Rock was Christ.
  • (12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
  • [5] And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
  • [6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
  • [7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
  • [8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
  • [9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

  • Interactive Network Dispatcher to be Used in

    Largest School Internet Project in History Dispatcher

    JUMP is the interesting feature see the news for the schools application

    Computers for Education (CFE)

    has selected IBM to provide every K-12 school, teacher and student in the United States with a free Internet Web site. Dubbed the American School Directory project, this project will provide information and communication for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning a move.


    The Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing


    The Far

    Eastern NetWorks,

    the Fourth Wave - a new topic

    RE: Don't buy that PC !


    http://www.news.com/Radio/oracle.html

    The most important story of our time WHY? (see

    http://www.nc.com/

    ) Cnet radio hear Larry on NC
    Larry calls the PC the Microsoft computer and a monopoly owned by one person ( Bill Gates ).

    The computer contains a processor ( mostly Intel ), a box ( Dell, Compact etc ) and software ( based on MS operations ). It has a Graphic User Interface (GUI) called Windows. It's expensive, hard to operate and cost a business $8,000 a year total costs.

    The Network computer, complete package, costs less than Microsoft Office97, including the server, the "network in a box" server, which can be a PC. It has far more capacity than the PC for most operations. Existing PC's are NC's with a low cost CD-ROM and it all works ! It has a digital (DUI ) with a Video User Interface (VUI) that fully integrates office applications, word processing on one editor which does presentations, mail, notes, time management, video, Internet all based on Internet HTTP. standards. It costs less than $800.00 a year total.


    Oracle Corp. will be joined by SunSoft Inc., IBM and Netscape Communications Corp . at Internet World to detail plans to coordinate their CORBA technologies, representing a milestone for the distributed object framework. ...Common Object Request Broker Architecture-based NCA (Network Computin Architecture). see http://www.wiredbrain.net/

    Hotflash.htm

    For Example

    CLOCKS

    Thursday, January 09, 1997 1:31:52 PM

    RE: Networks, idealab, and making a living on the Internet; http://www.idealab.com/


    The idea exchange, problem analysis and suggestions:

    Because the Internet effects us all, it changes the nature of "social capital", the essential ways the species use communications and work to earn a living.

    RE:

    SYNERGY RESALES

    - Web host service company:

    Now there are millions of individuals, smaller companies, schools, institutions of all kinds that would buy a web site from a Web host service company. We can put together editors, graphic artist, programmers to provide a complete package.

    The business of everyone having their own server or doing their own webmaster work can be replaced or supplemented by a "reseller".

    The Synergy

    Group doing tele-work (tele-commuters) sets up the site and does personal service.

    A site now costs $350.00 a year, Synergy Network gets a 30% discount to cover it's costs, so it's the same as a travel agent or ad agency, the client pays no more for the site than they would if they paid directly. For $500 a site ( total for a year ) we set up the site and manage it. For low competitive

    we have people to do graphics, CGI forms, what ever the client needs. This is a lot cheaper than having staff to do it, or most smaller users don't have the people or the interest in doing it themselves.

    msi.order@prowebsite.com That's why so many resellers choose ProWebSite(tm). You'll find the most features and benefits for you at the lowest price. Plus... resellers get an additional 30% discount on all 5 website packages! Take a look at

    http://prowebsite.com for more details.
    For the next 10 days, both resellers and non-resellers will get 30% off with this additional "pick your own bonus" special offer.

    I like to work on the connections between computer-network technology and human groups.

    The cyber-group is not studied or understood and of great economic importance. We are building a synergy group of practical business consultants, computer and network people, and social psychologist, Artificial Intelengence, neuro-biologist and

    evolutionary scientist, political scientist, sociologist and economist can offer services to all kinds of organizations as they struggle with remote work groups and Telework.

    The synergy group will help organizations gain social space in remote team building. This will give them have a great competitive advantage.

    There should be money in this somewhere. In the meanwhile it's really interesting.


    Thesis:

    Human

    evolution is based on the "catch-on factor"

    The structure of human intelligence is the predominant application of social technology. Sounds, symbols, graphics and pointers create a architectural language we use to building physical things, assign roles and tasks, compare ideas to process and outcomes, form religions, write and preform music, design organizations and create economic and political structures.

    The language contains elements such as families, tribes, clans, teams, cash flow, rights and privileges, duties and responsibilities, mutual obligations, trust, beliefs, needs, wants and passions expressed in social terms.

    Business and education, are changing much faster because of the change in the structure of knowledge and the languange of knowing:


    The economy is global as information transfers in new ways:

    Most enterprises, stores, banks, travel services, hotels, schools and training programs, financial services, are changing the roles of all the "middle people"; those involved in distribution between the production and consumption of information and *programs, goods and services, ideas and beliefs, as Bill Gates discussed last year, we all are "Internet challenged":

    An idea exchange, with payments, can apply to all these dismemberments of existing networks and transfigured markets; a crisis = danger + opportunity.

    RE: Synergy Applies to most tasks, work, learning and doing.

    ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 1997-- Motorola Inc., Multimedia Group announced today that it has invested in an equity stake in WorldGate Communications. WorldGate, creators of the interactive TV Internet access service, will now join the other members of Motorola's CyberSeed Venture program in delivering next generation content, tools and interactive services for broadband networks.


    http://faith.tvol.com/ -

    At a basic monthly fee of $4.95, the revolutionary WorldGate service is the cable industry's first interactive Internet service which uses an advanced analog cable converter, the existing TV set and a remote control (patents applied for). No PC or other set-top box is required, nor is there any use of the cable company's video spectrum.

    Using the vertical blanking interval, a normally unused portion of the video spectrum, the existing cable infrastructure will allow WorldGate to offer data rate speeds of 100,000 bits per second, three times as fast as the fastest telephone modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ).

    Additionally, WorldGate has pioneered Channel Hyperlinking(TM), the ability for subscribers -- with a single key stroke -- to connect directly to a Web site associated with a TV show or commercial announcement. Logging on to this service, for e-mail, Web browsing, or Channel Hyperlinking, requires less than three seconds.

    The WorldGate service will begin its initial deployments in the first quarter of 1997.


    http://www.tci.com/Press/070996.html


    http://www.tci.com/Whats_Next/Internet_Services/home.html


    http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest_columns/013_011397_102230_15171.html
    Teaching Via Internet Is Starrting To Catch On (1/13)

    By SCOTT ANDERSON c.1997 Midland Daily News

    MIDLAND, Mich. - Nadine Burke gets ready for work like any other college professor. She pulls together her lesson plans, gives her lecture to students, reviews their comments and grades homework assignments. But unlike most of her colleagues, Burke sometimes teaches in her pajamas and slippers.

    She's one of a growing number of cyber-profs doing most of their teaching via the Internet. Burke, an associate professor of English for Delta College (http://alpha.delta.edu/ ), taught English composition on-line last semester. This semester she plans to teach that course along with an on-line American literature course.

    Burke teaches most of her classes from home, and convenience, both for students and professors, is a major appeal of the virtual classroom.

    ``Students can do their homework and send it over at 3 in the morning, and when I check my e-mail at 9 a.m. it's there,'' Burke said.

    Students who can't go to campus find the Internet to be a valuable tool, Burke said. Her students have included a lawyer who wanted to brush up his English skills from home, a woman with a newborn baby and a student 75 miles away.

    ``I'm reaching a different market than you would get on campus,'' she said. ``When I think back to when I had children, I would have loved to have taught on the Internet when I was on maternity leave.''

    Burke and other professors using the Internet don't advocate doing away with the traditional classroom.

    The Internet is just another tool, said educators.

    ``

    There are a lot of professors using the Internet to supplement courses. I wish others would start doing it -- I need some companionship,'' Burke quipped.

    Central Michigan University (http://www.cmich.edu/ ) offered a few on-line courses last semester. During winter semester, the university offered 10 courses via the Internet in a wide variety of disciplines, including religion and statistics.

    All the courses are part of CMU's College of Extended Learning.

    The university hopes to offer a complete four-year on-line degree by fall.

    Michigan State University (http://www.msu.edu/ ) also offers classes on-line in areas such as nursing, social work, telecommunications and agriculture.

    Diane Boehm, director of the writing program at Saginaw Valley State University (http://tardis.svsu.edu/ ), has been using the Internet to help teach her students for almost 10 years. Her class, ENG 290: Writing and Cyberspace, is taught in a traditional classroom, but focuses exclusively on using the new medium.

    ``I want students to come away with an understanding of how electronic media is changing the way we write and the way we communicate with each other,'' she said.

    Reluctance to Internet education doesn't come from students, but from academia, according to Burke. Teaching on-line is something professors are going to have to get used to, she said.

    ``I am hearing a lot of people (who are) very concerned about it,'' Burke said. ``And I think they should be concerned.

    They think of it as the old correspondence course ... and that's not what this is. It's so much more than that.''

    One criticism educators have raised involves verification that students are actually doing the work. Burke said she takes steps to ensure students are turning in their own work. She takes a writing sample at the beginning of the semester and compares it with the kind of writing students submit on-line.

    But with class participation 25 percent of their grades, it would be more difficult for students to cheat than to do the work, according to Burke.

    ``You get to know your students in your Internet course the same way you do in your classroom,'' she said. ``But if a student's going to cheat, (he or she is) going to cheat.''

    NYT-01-13-97 1020EST< More News |Keyword Search |Hot Topics |Discussion Groups |Bill Gates |Home

    Online students fare better By Jane Black January 17, 1997, 6:30 p.m. PT

    A surprising new study at the California State University at Northridge shows that students learning in a virtual classroom tested 20 percent better across the board than their counterparts who learned in a traditional classroom.

    In his applied statistics class last year, Jerald Schutte, a professor at Northridge, randomly selected half of his students to be taught through traditional in-class lectures and pen-and-paper homework assignments while the rest learned through text posted online, email and newsgroups, real-time chat with their classmates, and electronic homework assignments.


    The students in the virtual class were given two in-class lectures to explain the technology they would be using and then came to class again only for the midterm and the final exam.


    There were no statistically significant differences between the sex, age, computer experience, or attitude toward the subject material of the two groups. Both were given identical tests that they took under the same conditions.


    The groundbreaking study, obtained by CNET this evening, provides the first quantitative data to be collected on virtual education--a field that until now has largely subsisted on anecdotal data, despite huge amounts of money that universities are spending to establish themselves as leaders in online education.

    Schutte said the unexpected results of the research can be explained by the online collaboration created in the virtual classroom. "

    The students formed peer groups online as compensation for not having time in class to talk," he said. "I believe that as much of the results can be explained by collaboration as the technology."

    In traditional educational theory, a professor is thought of as the mediator, the figure who encourages collaboration. Most people believe that this is the only way to learn, he said.

    "But in fact there is a very subtle thing going on here. A classroom can be inhibiting, intimidating. [In the classroom,] you think you are the only person who doesn't know the answer, so you don't talk.

    The very way classrooms are set up, with everyone facing forward, deters interaction."

    In fact, according to the study, students in the virtual class spent about 50/50percent more time working with each other than the people in the traditional classroom. And while the report acknowledges that the inability to talk to the professor was the cause of this interaction, the results show that the collaboration "manifests itself in better test score" as students formed study groups to "pick up the slack of not having a real classroom."

    Other educational studies have discovered similar benefits to online student collaboration. "It is an effort to engage," said Jeff Stanzler, who directs a University of Michigan program that encourages high school students to share their poetry online. "Students need to have a certain mindset. This different than regular lessons and schools.

    They are encouraged to respond and work together and put those demands a little more front and center than they can in a classroom."

    Online teaching won't solve all educational problems, however. Although the results of his study support much of the hype su rrounding its future, Schutte points out that virtual learning may have its limits.

    "You must distinguish between the form and the content," he said. Virtual learning "may only be useful in the abstract, only for certain kinds of classes," he added.

    For subjects where real-time interpersonal communication is required, such as philosophy and ethics, computer-mediated communications such as videoconferencing and supplemental online texts may be the answer.

    This semester, Schutte plans further study with a sociology methods class. In an effort to discover whether the high levels of collaboration were a result of the particular group of students in the virtual class or the virtual experience itself, he will try single-subject replications.

    That means that students will learn some modules in the classroom and some online. Schutte will test them after each module to see if performance levels are different.

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    Programs in building Cultural technology:

    I am sure you all have many examples where the "system" didn't work and "stupid", ineffective *decisions were made. Here are just a couple of examples. IBM made so many mistakes in office products in the 1970's and most of the 80's as to be a model of ineffective planning.

    Their record is now challenged by Apple's production staff. Many organizations, NCR, Zerox, ATT, CDC, and 100's of smaller computer companies are no longer with us because of the lack of "social capital" Social technology is the real issue of survival. So very few understand and fewer apply.

    Some years ago a major federal agency was installing a time share information system for a big national social security program. A professional consultant was hired to install the software / hardware terminals so offices nationally could access a data base.

    The mainframe was an older IBM and ever older operating system for time share.

    The consultant recommended a upgrade before installing such a enormous system. Without the upgrade the whole system would have to be redone at huge cost.

    The people in the central computer facility did not have the authority to upgrade even if the consultant provided all the software.


    The consultant was ethical and took the issue up the chain of command where he found a almost total lack of understanding of the issues and a "paper war" about budgets and future upgrades. He was forced to install a obsolete program on out of date equipment.

    The net effect of this was ineffective applications and much higher costs. This kind of problem is what made Ross Parot rich and EDS turn-key information systems necessary.


    The disaster at Bhopal, India Dec 3, 1984 when 40 tons of methylisocyanate (MIC) from pesticides manufacture poisoned 800,000, killed 2,500 and caused chronic liver, visual, lung, and skin damage to over 250,000 people was caused by, the investigation after the fact showed, technological and managerial false assumptions and actual disorder which caused flagrant indifference to known risks.

    Francis Fukuyama's book "TRUST,

    The social Virtues & the Creation of Prosperity" suggests the cause of these all too common problems.

    The lack of "trust" has forced replacement of natural work groups with formal administrative rules and procedures.

    The management of technology, organizational operations are not culturally or morally free. His concept of "social capital" is the ability of people to spontaneously work together and trust each other. "Social Capital" is the critical idea of the current technological, economic, political, educational, managerial effectiveness. It is absolutely necessary to understand the concept of "social engineering" as prejudiced as we are about the concept. Ford was a social engineer, so is IBM, Microsoft, and so was the creation of Japan Inc. We assume "social engineering" is top down, anti-human, bureaucratic and mean. It can be, and must be, if it is to work, moral, human, honest, loyal, truthful, in fact, all the social virtues are practical and necessary.

    Fukuyama's book discussed the change from "Ford's" scientific management "X" theory organization of mass production to "Toyota's" "Z" style lean manufacturing, network systems. He gives the credit to Taiichi Ono the chief production engineer at Toyota. He does not mention Deming's TQM.

    The problem Toyota was out to solve was low cost construction of many alternative products in relatively "short" production runs.

    The "Ford" system was based on the economies of scale requiring very long runs to distribute the massive set up costs over large number of products.

    The ratio of fixed to variable costs was very high until "masses" were assembled. Just in time, lean manufacture reduced inventories of parts, reorganized tooling from days to minutes, required quality checks at the source. Lean manufacturing could not be tied to complex administrative rules and job descriptions. Freeing groups to be innovative created ""

    The difference in benefit/cost was striking - less than half of the competition. That kind of productive difference gets noticed.

    We will look at examples of the how's and where "applied social psychology" works. John Dewey, Anton Mankaranko, Father Flannagan, Debbie Miers in education; Deming in industrial engineering, Peter Sange in systems analysis, Charles Handy and Peter Drucker in management theory, Gary Becker in economics, James Fallows on technology.

    The people matter. Some people get along better than others. It is important to select the "right" people but people can change and most will adapt to social systems and develop good and bad habits depending on motivation, incentives and climate.

    The lessons we learn from examining models is both very simple and very complex. Social systems that work "go with the flow", the bent is make straight, good is made better, better is a process, without and with pressure, stress and timing.

    RE:

    The governing issue of our times:

    BLUE SKY Paradigms, Learning Organizations.

    Rapid change under competitive conditions require very smart maneuvers, if we don't move fast enough, someone will. It's almost impossible to maintain a "franchise" and control shifting markets. For many products and services the market is neonate, not quite born, so products and services have to be created out of the "blue sky" What we know and can ( more or less agree about ):


    There is a significant change from "X" factories ( top-down, separation of thinking and doing, bureaucratic, position and power often goal replaces quality. Not quite honest, sincere, but out for the "bottom line"

    The fifth wave ( Tribal, Ancient Empires, Nation States, 1st and 2nd Industrial Revolutions, now "information societies" ) is open, global, competitive, fast, sincere, honest, collective responsibility, teams, and the Quality that grows from such "learning systems" Liberty, equality, and fraternity, become open decisions (participation), objective reasons, (rather than power) and joyful esprit de corps.


    The Fidelity Funds, Magellan managers, (Peter Lynch) visited firms. What they looked for was honest, dedicated, and talented people.

    The quality of the people ( at all levels ) made for successful companies ( in the long run) and the strategy produced the most successful mutual fund.( Peter's Search for Excellence, named firms, almost all over the hump, and on the way down.

    They had out lived their reputations ) Maybe I should do an index of quality firms for investment purposes. Figures don't lie, but liars sure can figure. What we don't know and can't agree about: Can you train and direct responsibility ? Can you leave the choice of goals and well as methods "open"? How do you structure freedom, organize liberty, direct team work and manage creativity ?


    The third wave (mainframes, PC's now.. NC ) is the convergence of four elements and seven technologies;


    The four elements are:

    I.)

    The box with the computer on your desk

    II.) the connection to INTERNET

    III.) ISP (INTERNET service provider) and the Server hardware IV.) Server Software and all the service beyond making a

    connection.


    The Technologies are:


    MyWay™ is a free personalized service that makes

    the Web relevant and effortless. Featuring hundreds of

    channels, an intuitive use model, and an elegant user

    interface, MyWay will make the Web relevant, useful,

    1.) computers, PC, mainframes, the WYSE / NC VayuWeb or Web-TV

    http://www.nc.com/ push and pull...

    Wyse type ( network computer)/WEB-TV hardware/ Push technology 100-Mbit/s Ethernet and Token Ring networks


    http://www.trancell.com/press.aug.ipx.html

    2.) low orbit satellites,

    http://www.iridium.com/



    Motorola's Iridium Low orbit Satellites and new wireless systems alone with several others

    3.) object programming, IIOP, ODBC driver,

    Java and it's

    sisters.. active-x - AIP ( Application Program Interface)

    ODBC driver, Object software Microsoft sees

    Java's primary usefulness as an intermediate language between the more advanced C++ and the broadly used Visual Basic, not as a cross-platform development language.


    http://www.webweek.com:80/current/news/microsoft.html

    -

    http://home.netscape.com/comprod/columns/techvision/iiop.html

    http://www.marimba.com/

    where the complex stuff is moved from a PC to the server. Kim Polese,

    Java, marimba and IIOP, Visual Basic C++++ Sun

    Microsystems object programs that work cross platforms, with a small plug in. ( See is

    Java for real below )


    Java.html http://www.data.com:80/hot_products/lan_gear/

    Java.html

    4.) network servers, http://www.ipc-interactive.com
    (

    see also http://www.nc.com/

    )

    Cnet radio hear Larry on NC

    The Internet - Web browsers and Intranets - Enterprise servers Larry NC VayuWeb( Network Computers ) from Oracle and Web-TV,

    http://www.DirecPC.com/talk/index.html " DirecPC utility systems

    5.) television,

    http://www.DirecPC.com/talk/index.html

    @home

    6.) telephones, and wireless modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s

    7.) cable systems VOD Video on Demand.


    http://www.ipc-interactive.com IPC Interactive Inc.

    TV all make up a Internet system.

    1+2+3+4= 15 Synergy is more then the sum of its parts:

    Will the Mega-bucks can be made by a ISPO II ( Electronic

    Prototype Communications and Operations Teleport ). Hotel, entertainment and work centers which provide a bag up synergy of Internet/Intranets working on 10 Mb connections.

    Sun knows how to get the attention of network managers. It says its

    Javastation network computer can cut support costs by 80 percent a year.

    Java.html">http://www.data.com:80/hot_products/lan_gear/

    Java.html


    Javastation is essentially a stripped-down desktop machine with Web browser software and a 100-MHz microSparc II processor. It uses a

    Java-enabled browser to download applications from the Web and the local network server for file storage--all of which simplifies software upgrades and cuts management expenses dramatically. How dramatically? Sun claims that it costs just $2,500 per year to support

    Javastation, as opposed to the $12,000 that Gartner Group Inc. (Stamford, Conn.) says is needed annually for a conventional PC.

    "

    The obvious advantage of going with a

    Javastation is lower cost," says Pete Kelly, senior vice president of technology with the Capital Markets division of First Union Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.). "But with

    Javastations deployed we also gain a competitive edge because we can get new applications out across the network more rapidly."

    Each of these systems is being built for its own good reasons but the real power is in the combination.

    The INTERNET with high band width, running on utility machines, where the server does most of the complex stuff, downloading applications that contain their own OS ( operating systems ) and language codes, all supplied by satellites, to anyone with a cable or a 12" dish.

    Can we now put together the Four elements and at least seven technologies that go into setting up a "show room" or prototype ISPO, an Internet Service Provider Office. (Information Society Project Office )


    http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/ispo.html

    Can we develop I-ISPO an International Internet Service Provider Show Place now ?

    The locations will be global mostly at first class executive hotels with existing satellite connections. We are looking for companies to display current operational

    technology open to the public, and/or invitational private showings, fee for service demonstrations, hands on applications are all desired.

    ISPO is installed in hotels ( or other places ) and would do current high end technology - like what is done at the computer shows but on a continuous basis and local to major markets.

    The cost could be covered by "users", training applications, and conference applications.

    The hotel would get into a position of being state of the art and have a unique service to offer guests and teleworkers. ( What do you think - do you have any

    connections to people in these areas ?)

    International "ISPO Internet show place office" and telework:

    Key word: teleworking - shows up mainly on BT ( British Telephone now joined with MCI )


    http://www.intranet.gr/wise/english/rd/reports/telework/cobra/ d1/ deliv1.html

    The European Commission study of BPR ( Business Process Restructuring) COBRA (Constraints and Opportunities in Business Restructuring - an Analysis: A huge potential for beneficial change exists. Imaginative, innovative and enlightened implementation of re-engineering (or other types of

    organizational restructuring) could regenerate the capability of enterprises and communities to compete, deliver value and

    satisfaction, and offer the people of Europe a richer variety of work and lifestyle opportunities.


    http://www.labs.bt.com/innovate/telework/reports/contents/glim pse /techn.htm and

    http://www.idiscover.co.uk/rodz/index.htm

    ICEF International Conferences, Exhibitions and Fairs


    http://www.online-educa.com/Web_icef.htm

    100770.3137@compuserve.com icef@pm.bn.eunet.de

    http://www.dataprep.com.my/techtalk/mobiled/md01001.htm


    http://www.gilgordon.com/

    All the reporting and PR seems to miss- the point of what happens in complex systems as they converge. SYNERGY is where the sum is greater than the individual parts. All important social/technical changes were combinations of existing technologies in new forms; navigation and ship construction, pump engines, mining, and coal and iron, steam and trains, cable and satellite communications, etc. Sure we are mostly specialist but the really interesting innovations take place in the seams between technologies.

    ABOUT THE INTERNET

    by Netscape

    http://home.netscape.com/home/about-the-Internet.html "We're fast approaching the third wave of global networking. In 1995, Netscape helped lead the explosion of the World Wide Web and the public Internet. This year, the benefits of Web

    technology inside corporate environments fueled the rapid rise of the INTRANET as a private, secure network linking people and information. In 1997, open standards-based EMAIL and groupware will extend the promise of INTRANET technology - and bring about the third wave of information exchange.

    INTRANET users employ and leverage information, whether it exists inside a corporate INTRANET; is shared with partners, vendors, and customers via an extranet;

    http://home.netscape.com/comprod/columns/mainthing/extranets.h tml or is found out on the ever-growing Internet. Open-standards software products can help you work effectively and efficiently, and these links should help you better understand the difference between information utility and information overload. "

    A New WIND is blowing:

    IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol, Structured Query Language for programming databases, COBRA,

    Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interfaces to JDBC-compliant databases in J/SQL all imply a registrar of operations that are collected case by case to do what is required, rather than having all this complex programming set up on the PC. This is what is important.

    The whole idea of suites, and property software is no longer necessary.


    http://www.sci.kcn.ru/~maxim/

    for the sights and sounds of

    Java - tutor


    http://158.132.100.221/WTfolder/WebCourse.html

    What we are talking about is a thin NC machine with a FAT server: what Bill Gates now calls zero Administration


    http://home.microsoft.com/reading/reading.asp

    People want zero administration.

    They want devices in which the software is brought up without user intervention. If there's a problem with the machine, it knows to request the latest driver or an update across a network or simply to share a screen with somebody who's doing remote support, whether it's inside the company where that machine is being used or out at another company.


    The Geodesic Network, OpenDoc, and Cyberdog ( and

    Java IIOP ) Today the Web,

    Tomorrow the World

    Is

    Java a serious programming language? Yes. Will it

    become a Windows killer? Maybe.


    http://www.byte.com:80/art/9701/sec6/art1.htm

    Tom R. Halfhill

    You've heard the hype. You've groaned at the bad coffee puns. Now it's time for the crucial question: Is

    Java for real?


    JavaSoft is releasing these libraries in stages, preceded by specs that introduce programmers to the new classes and methods. For instance, some of the enterprise classes are available now, letting

    Java programs access corporate databases through

    Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interfaces.

    There are also gateways to Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) components and remote method invocations (RMIs).

    Sun and

    JavaSoft aren't working on this alone.

    Java has broad industry support. Examples include Symantec's dbAnywhere, which provides the middleware and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers to connect

    Java programs to Oracle, Sybase SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and numerous other databases. Centura Software (formerly Gupta) sells Centura Web Developer, which lets corporations build

    Java programs that simultaneously connect to multiple databases via IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), a transaction-processing monitor.

    ( Continued below )

    By Robert Hettinga


    There is of course, sizable argument about whether the internet is in fact organized, but it is organized, and it is because it is out of control that it works. In fact, Kevin Kelly's excellent book, called, ironically ;-), "Out of Control", speaks precisely to that point. Kelly talks about organization "emerging" from chaotic circumstances, about biological analogs to this, like a beehive, and about why the net works. It's a great read, and I recommend it highly.

    You can see the rise of the geodesic network model in all sorts of things (remember what I said about everything looking like a nail?).

    The ubiquitous computing stuff they're doing at Xerox PARC is the most famous example, and my favorite really

    outrageous one is the capital markets and the financial system, particularly when you look at the long term consequences of digital bearer certificates like digital cash, or digital stocks and bonds.

    Anyway, my favorite analogy (and you can see I use way too many as it is ;-)) for the effect of microprocessors on information is that of a surfactant: plain old soap. Like the Dawn commercial, where a drop of dish soap breaks those big grease globs into smaller and smaller pieces until they seem to disappear, Moore's Law does the same thing to information, and by extension,

    information hierarchies. Now it seems that information

    hierarchies are the central fact of modern life, and everything from governments to corporations to practically any organization imaginable evolves into one when it gets big enough.

    However, let's dance around the sociology a bit here and apply this strictly to software on the internet, which is the mother of all geodesic networks, specifically the internet as a glaring exception to the rule of organization as information hierarchy. Now, I'm a Certified MacBigot, but I haven't been paying much attention to microcomputer markets much in the last year or so because I've focused so much of my time on the net, in

    particular, on internet commerce. I have gotten to the point that where the net is the only thing that gets me really fired up creatively. To paraphrase Gibson a little, sometimes I think that hardware as just "meat;" the Real Stuff is on the net... You have everything from news and mail groups to the web, discussing everything from why the Brits have the new Babylon-5 episodes and we don't, to digital cash and cryptoanarchy.

    For someone with the attention span of a gnat, like me, the net is heaven. You can pretty quickly find the bleeding edge of some new field, get spun up in a few weeks and actually ask

    intelligent questions, and even make a conceptual contribution or two, if you bring something new to the table. Things are changing so fast that everyone's knowledge gets retreaded almost yearly. Thank you, Mr. Moore.

    I used to think, "if only you could get paid to do this stuff", and now, it's beginning to look like you can. With the advent of internet commerce, someday pretty soon you'll be able to live anywhere you want, and sell what you do, or what you think, even, to anyone, anywhere. For cash.

    The ganglia twitch. I love this place.

    That's nothing new, of course. McNeally of Sun has said the "network is the computer" for a decade or more, and we're still wrestling with stuff like CORBA to get it all organized and under control, and no one has figured out how to really implement the object model on an enterprize-wide basis and all of that gark, and meanwhile I'm looking it all in the face, right here at MacWorld, between bites of a ham and cheese sandwich.


    The beauty of OpenDoc is that it doesn't have to be organized, or more precisely, controlled .

    The user picks his parts and puts them together, the user figures out what he wants to see, the developer has no idea what his OpenDoc part is going to actually be used for , doesn't care too much about what it interacts with besides what it needs to run, and only cares about what his part does . Organization from chaos.

    Now, there are other architectures out there, not the least of which is OLE, ostensibly a compound document architecture, but is in reality Microsoft's bus for linking all its "Office"

    applications, and thus trying to create with it a super-app which is supposed to be the software equivalent of kudzu, choking all its competition out of the water. OLE may do more to increase the market for Pentium chips than any marketer at Intel ever dreamed, but I don't think that it's going to do what Microsoft hopes. I think that Microsoft is barking up the wrong tree for two

    reasons: One, if it plays its historic "dog in the manger" role of controlling code to its own advantage, it will eventually collapse under the load of trying to write it all. Word 6 is a good case in point, and it's just a word processor. Two, if Microsoft actually opens up OLE to the rest of the world, by improving it so it works better, and by improving its developer evangelism, including not saving the juicy bits for its own developers first, then microsoft gets its application code base broken up just like a big glob of grease in dishwater breaks up when the soap hits it. Microsoft goes back to being an operating system company, sans the efforts of Mrs. Clinton, Reno, Bingaman, et. al.

    A geodesic network routes around all obstructions.

    ---------------------------------------------------------

    Robert Hettinga can be contacted via the internet at

    rah@shipwright.com or at Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131.

    This article is 1995 Robert Hettinga. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with permission.

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    Tomorrow the World

    Is

    Java a serious programming language? Yes. Will it

    become a Windows killer? Maybe.


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    Tom R. Halfhill

    You've heard the hype. You've groaned at the bad coffee puns. Now it's time for the crucial question: Is

    Java for real?

    Straight answer:

    Java isn't just for building cute Web pages anymore.

    Java is establishing itself as a serious programming language capable of tackling the most sophisticated business applications. Never in the history of computing has a new

    language attracted so much support from toolmakers, software developers, and OS vendors in such a short time.


    The larger question is, "How much further can

    Java go?"

    The answer, incredible as it may seem, is that

    Java could surpass Windows as the software platform with the world's largest

    installed base by the turn of the century.


    These developments help overcome

    Java's reputation as a

    lightweight language for creating decorative Web applets. Look beyond the bouncing heads that enliven Web sites, and you'll see that

    Java is an industrial-strength, object-oriented language that supports inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism,

    multithreading, dynamic linking, and interfaces. It's in the same major league as C++.

    Why is

    Java winning over professional developers, who are

    notoriously hard to please?

    Java closely resembles C++, so experienced programmers probably have more to unlearn than to learn. Yet it offers significant advantages over C++.

    Java makes it easier to write code that's portable, reusable, and bug-free. Cross-platform compatibility is a tremendous factor in

    Java's early success.

    Java compilers (available for Windows,- the Mac OS, and Unix) convert

    Java source code into class files of byte code.

    The class files correspond to executable binary files generated by compilers for other languages. Unlike native binary files, however,

    Java byte code isn't specific to a particular

    microprocessor architecture. Its "native" architecture is the

    Java VM, which today exists only in software. (Soon, it will exist in hardware as well; see "Sun Gambles on

    Java Chips," November 1996 BYTE, page 79.)

    As a result,

    Java class files are portable to any hardware platform that has a

    Java run-time environment.

    The environment consists of the

    Java VM, some standard class libraries, a

    byte-code verifier (for security), and a byte-code interpreter.

    The interpreter runs the class files on the VM without requiring programmers to rewrite or even recompile their source code. This "write once, run anywhere" universality is so compelling that some companies are writing their

    Java development tools in

    Java so they'll run on any machine. Ignite Technologies' Layout Mill, a visual GUI builder, is one example.

    Because

    Java programs stay within the

    Java run-time environment, they normally don't interact directly with the native CPU or OS.

    The run-time environment handles memory management, including garbage collection, so programmers don't have to allocate memory or dispose of leftover objects.

    There's no need for pointer arithmetic, another major source of bugs in C++.

    Java has a clean, efficient model for error handling and encourages code reuse because it's object-oriented from the ground up.

    Java also substitutes interfaces for the complex multiple inheritance of C++.

    According to John F. Andrews, president of CSX Technology, programmer productivity and cross-platform freedom were "key factors" in his railroad's decision to use

    Java for a massive shipment-tracking application. CSX thinks it's the largest enterprise application yet written in

    Java. "

    Java happened at exactly the right time for us," says Andrews.

    This is not the case with

    Java. It's a platform implemented in software that runs on practically any machine, and software spreads much faster than hardware. If you've installed a


    Java-compatible Web browser, such as Sun's Hot

    Java, Netscape Navigator 3.0, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, the

    Java run-time environment is already on your computer. You can also download JDK for free off the Web to make your system a

    Java platform.

    Java development tools come with a VM, too.

    Java isn't self-replicating like a virus, but it's nearly as contagious. Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Silicon Graphics, and Sun are paradoxically accelerating the process by integrating the

    Java run-time environment into their OSes. All of them say their OSes will be

    Java-enabled within a year.

    They recognize

    Java's

    popularity and potential, and that offering a superior

    Java run-time environment will give them a competitive advantage. It's good for users because each new

    Java-enabled application you install won't have to clutter your system with its own VM. By the end of this year, there will be

    Java VMs for Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, the Mac OS, most flavors of Unix, OS/2, NetWare, and Apple's Pippin and Newton OSes. IBM is even porting

    Java to the AS/400 and MVS, which manage an estimated 70 percent of the world's corporate data. This is why it's not crazy to predict that by the turn of the century, there will be more copies of the

    Java VM in the world than any of the OSes that host it.

    Note that

    Java will not replace any of those OSes. Indeed, the

    Java VM is a benign parasite that cannot run without a host OS. (Sun has a special

    Java OS, but it's for dedicated

    Java devices, not conventional PCs.) Far from being a Windows killer,

    Java actually needs Windows to spread itself on the massive installed base of PCs.

    Things will get really interesting if that happens. Sheer numbers will make

    Java the world's most widespread software platform. Every

    Java VM will run every

    Java program that has ever been written or will be written, without porting or recompiling. How will this affect the software balance of power?

    It could work to the advantage of minority platforms that

    currently don't attract as much software development as Windows. Today, developers justify Windows-centricity by explaining that it's simply good business to target the largest installed base. If

    Java becomes the largest installed base, and developers gradually shift their focus away from Windows, the minority platforms will get much more software. On the other hand,

    Java could also hurt the minority platforms by robbing them of the special development they receive now -- the kind of support that makes them unique and justifies their existence.

    Corporate developers who need to make

    Java applications fit with legacy code are encountering fewer roadblocks. However, if a developer absolutely needs a native service that

    Java doesn't support,

    Java has a method modifier (native) that lets a

    Java application directly call a native executable file, such as a DLL or an OS API. This also delivers native performance.

    Unfortunately, native methods have two major drawbacks.

    Java applets (programs that run in a Web browser) currently are not allowed to call native methods, for obvious security reasons. Sun is developing a new security model that will let users and administrators selectively change this restriction, as well as other security rules. More seriously, native methods undercut

    Java's cross-platform compatibility. A

    Java program that relies on native methods would need a similar method on every supported platform.

    Sun's new component architecture,

    JavaBeans, will accelerate

    Java's encapsulation of native features by bringing more

    third-party developers into the fray. Beans are easier to write than Microsoft's ActiveX objects or Component Integration

    Laboratories' OpenDoc Live Objects, yet they can interact with those component architectures (see the sidebar "

    JavaBeans: Cross-Platform Components").

    Speed Limits

    Developers who need maximum performance have a good reason for avoiding

    Java:

    They can write a compiled program in C or C++ that runs at least 10 times faster than an interpreted

    Java program. For many applications, this isn't important. Tools such as Visual Basic and PowerBuilder are popular because they're fast enough. But when performance does matter, there's no denying that

    interpreted

    Java byte code is slow.

    To some degree, this problem will solve itself as computers get faster. Of course, native code will run faster on those new computers, too, so this won't eliminate the performance gap. However, the gap does not have to close altogether for

    Java to succeed. Compiled C/C++ code doesn't run as fast as expertly written code in assembly language, yet few developers are using assembly language these days for anything but optimizing critical routines. C/C++ rules because it's more portable and it helps programmers work more productively -- the same advantages that

    Java offers over C/C++.

    Nevertheless, programmers and toolmakers are striving to improve

    Java's performance. Programmers can write inline code (see "Better

    Java Programming," September 1996 BYTE). Sun

    Microelectronics and International Meta Systems are designing microprocessors that will execute

    Java byte code directly. Perhaps the most promising solution is just-in-time (JIT)

    compilers. Like

    Java interpreters, they convert byte code into native code on the fly, but they cache the converted code in memory while the program runs.

    JIT compilers can be completely transparent to users.

    Java programs that run through a JIT compiler can achieve up to 50 percent of the speed of native code, and the technology is steadily improving. Netscape plans to bundle a JIT compiler with Navigator 4.0, and Microsoft, IBM, and Apple plan to integrate JIT compilers with their

    Java run-time environments.

    Another option is static compilation. Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) technology translates byte code into Mips Rx000 native code, links the resulting binaries to the

    Java class files, and adds a second entry point to the

    Java method block.

    Java programs, running on SGI's specially modified VM, check the method block to see if there's a pointer to a translated method. If so, the program executes the translated method instead of the byte code version. Combined with inline coding, this allows

    Java to

    approach the performance of C++, according to David Henke, engineering manager of SGI's Web Products Division.

    As with native methods, however, SGI's technology limits

    cross-platform compatibility -- the translated code runs only on a Mips CPU. It offers two advantages. Developers can easily separate the translated code from the byte code to regain

    portability, and programmers can write an entire project in

    Java instead of writing native methods in another language.


    There's no reason why SGI or someone else couldn't adapt this technology to other CPU architectures.

    Java applets will probably always exist as platform-neutral byte code, because they're embedded in Web pages that must run on any browser. However, stand-alone

    Java applications that need top performance will almost certainly rely on some kind of JIT or static compiler.

    The performance boost is significant, and it doesn't have to

    interfere with the cross-platform compatibility that is

    Java's greatest strength.

    Higher Abstraction

    In the long run, none of the technical problems that might deter today's developers are likely to pose an insurmountable obstacle for

    Java. As both a language and a platform,

    Java is evolving at an unprecedented pace. We can speculate on

    Java's course because it's consistent with historical trends in computing.


    The most important trend is toward higher levels of software abstraction above the hardware.

    The more tightly that software is intertwined with hardware, the bigger the headaches for

    developers and users. Programmers get more performance by writing to the metal, but the code is hard to maintain and even harder to port. And code lives longer than anyone plans.

    That's why the computer industry is spending billions of dollars rewriting ancient code that can't handle the year 2000. That's why the U.S. air-traffic-control system is still running on antiquated machinery from the 1960s. That's why the Social Security Administration is patching a program from the 1970s that has been underpaying retirees for two decades. Put bluntly, it's negligent for software developers to ignore the possibility that their code may live for 10 or 20 years.


    Java carries software abstraction to the next level because it abstracts everything below the VM. It's designed for a world in which the OS and CPU are interchangeable parts that can be replaced without breaking applications. It's designed for an age of diversity in which PCs and other smart devices can use any CPU or OS that delivers the best performance, the lowest cost, the most efficient power consumption, the lightest weight, or any other parameter that becomes important.

    Java's success isn't inextricably tied to network computers, PDAs, and smart

    appliances, but

    Java is ideal for devices that expand today's narrow definition of a PC.

    Unix and NT offer some hardware abstraction, but they're

    multiplatform, not cross-platform. Users still have to replace or recompile all their software if they switch CPUs, and not all software is available for all CPUs. Also, these OSes still chain you to an OS.

    Java can run on just about any OS or CPU.

    Gambling on

    Java

    So a developer's decision about adopting

    Java depends on three questions. First, can

    Java handle the job? It should be clear by now that

    Java is suitable for a wide range of applications and is gaining ground fast. Still, it can't do everything, and the tools need to get a lot better.

    Second, does cross-platform compatibility matter? If you believe the computers of tomorrow will be basically the same as the computers of today, only with more megabytes and megahertz,

    Java isn't the best choice. Other languages and tools are more refined and deliver better performance on traditional hardware.

    If, however, you'd like to write code that runs on any hardware, the final question is whether

    Java is the best cross-platform option.

    The answer depends on the maturity of

    Java, which changes almost daily. Certainly you can do a lot with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML),

    JavaScript, VB Script, Perl, and other

    cross-platform solutions, especially if Microsoft delivers on its promises for ActiveX.

    But it's hard to bet wrong on

    Java. History shows that those who gamble correctly on an emerging platform win big, and those who gamble wrong end up with dead code. Even if

    Java fails to conquer the world as a platform, you'll still end up with code that runs on whatever platform rules the kingdom. For developers, the risks are minimal. For users,

    Java could bring a new freedom to change OSes and CPUs without breaking software -- a freedom they've never had before.


    Java Resources

    Gamelan:

    http://www.gamelan.com/index.shtml

    This on-line directory can point you to thousands of

    Java applets and applications,

    Java development tools, and links to hundreds of other

    Java-related Web sites.


    The

    Java Difference

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    Tom R. Halfhill is a BYTE senior editor based in San Mateo, California. You can reach him on the Internet at

    thalfhill@bix.com.

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    http://www.wyith.com/ look for in Web pages

    Oracle Sees Big Role For

    Java in its Upcoming NCs

    By Ellis Booker and David F. Carr


    http://www.webweek.com/current/news/oracle.html

    Leaving no doubt that

    Java is now the cornerstone of its

    computing strategy, Oracle Corp. is going forward with a slew of

    Java-related products for its two-month-old Network Computing Architecture.


    The Network Computing Architecture designates Internet

    standards-including HTTP,

    Java, and an object specification called the IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol-as the means of communication between Oracle databases and Internet-enabled applications.

    "We're committed to

    Java at every single tier of this model," said Mark Jarvis, vice president of server marketing at Oracle. On the

    Java tools front, Oracle said last week it will put

    Java on a par with PL/SQL, its extension of the Structured Query Language for programming Oracle databases. COBRA ?

    It also showed a new high-level programming language, J/SQL, for creating

    Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) interfaces to

    JDBC-compliant databases. At its press conference, Oracle

    demonstrated an application using 56 lines of JDBC code versus one built in J/SQL that required just 15 lines.

    With J/SQL, "

    Java is being included in the database on an equal footing with PL/SQL," said Beatriz V. Infante, Oracle's senior vice president for Internet and media products.

    Oracle promised to promote J/SQL as an open standard and to make it available to other vendors at no charge.

    And Oracle said it will incorporate

    Java into all its development and decision-support tools by the middle of 1997, including Oracle Developer/2000, Oracle Designer/2000, Oracle Power

    Objects, Oracle Discoverer, and Sedona.

    Oracle expanded beyond purely database announcements, unveiling a beta version of a merchant server built on the Network Computing Architecture.


    The cartridge concept Code-named Project Apollo, the server is a "cartridge" that plugs into Oracle's WebServer, which has been renamed Oracle Web Application Server.

    Web Application Server 3.0, announced last week and scheduled to ship in the first quarter of 1997, adds XA-compliant transaction processing-a first for a Web server, according to Oracle.

    The new server also includes several new cartridges, including support for server-side

    Java-enabled through a

    Java cartridge that implements a

    Java Virtual Machine-and an ODBC cartridge.

    Like the Web Application Server and the Oracle Database Server, Apollo can accept cartridges from Oracle third-party companies to provide additional functionality, such as a cartridge to handle tax calculations for purchases made through an online catalog. Oracle claims that some 70 companies are building cartridges for Oracle's client, application server, and database server. "Our personal experience has been that building our cartridge was very straightforward and didn't require any special handholding from Oracle," said Jeff Whitney, marketing director for

    Bluestone.

    Bluestone's Sapphire/Web 3.0, which will appear in the next few months, includes cartridge support.

    The Sapphire application server runs about 70 percent faster with the Oracle WebServer than with either the Netscape or Microsoft Web servers, Whitney said.

    -------------------------------------------------------------- --- Reprinted from Web Week, Volume 2, Issue 20, December 16, 1996 (c) Mecklermedia Corp. All rights reserved. Keywords: databases

    Java Date: 19961216


    http://www.iworld.com


    The Hindu wind god, he is usually gentle. As air, he forms a triad with Agni and Surya.

    Swift as thought, he has an antelope form, a thousand eyes (nothing gets by him unnoticed), and ninety-nine horses to draw his chariot.

    Similar in nature to Pan. BUT. .for the existing software industry:

    Vayu is the god or the winds, Allied to him are the Maruts,--the storm-gods, or "crushers," whose name is derived from a root meaning to grind, and is obviously connected with such names as mars and Ares.

    The same root appears in Miolnir, and epithet of Thor, conceived as the crashing, or crushing god.

    The Maruts are the Hindu counterparts of the Norse Ogres-the fierce storm-beings who toss the sea into foam, and who in the Norse Tales, are represented as being armed with iron clubs, at every stroke of which they send the earth flying so many yards into the air.

    The primary meaning of the name is clear from the Vedic passages which describe the Maruts as roaring among the forest trees, and tearing up the cloulds for rain.

    http://www.vayuweb.com/ THIS MUST BE SEEN....and Client Server Connection Ltd. www.CSCL.com

    The core of the idea is to get your input feedback and add it to the http://www.wiredbrain.net

    documents JOURNAL before the final copy is send out over the weekend: So far we have looked at:


    http://www.techweb.com:80/wire/news/1213alliance.html Using a standard phone line, the Internet set-top box can deliver interactive-TV online service with the click of a remote controller. Ideally, you can do almost everything with a $300 Internet set-top box that you can do on a PC. Users can

    automatically download most of the necessary software from servers over the network.


    The Internet set-top box provides inexpensive World-Wide-Web access and applications for a wide range of consumer needs. For those who have ever used a computer and who want a hassle-free way to explore the Web, it is an inexpensive and easy-to-use solution. Typically plugged into a TV, the set-top box makes Internet accessible to everyone.


    The BIG QUESTION is Bill Gates right about the timing of the great broadband connection in the sky ?

    Q: Will TVs, PCs Hook To Internet By Satellite? (11/19)

    By BILL GATES

    Distributed by New York Times Special Features

    QUESTION: Do you expect to see TVs and PCs connected to the Internet via satellite dish in the near future? (Glen Caplan, Boca Raton, Fla.)


    http://nytsyn.com/live/Gates2/338_120396_150002_10398.html BILL'S ANSWER: Satellites will soon be one of the ways that very limited information from the Internet is broadcast to TVs and PCs. But wireless broadcasts won't offer real interactively or access to the vast majority of Web sites....

    At some point a new generation of hundreds of

    low-altitude satellites is likely to make fully interactive broadband Internet access a reality around the globe. But that day is at least several years away.
    (

    see also http://www.nc.com/

    )

    Cnet radio hear Larry on NC
    Why doesn't he think the NC Web-TV but VayuWeb is not a long way off (it's really a matter of when?) but I think we can do it now? What do you know about this ?


    http://nytsyn.com/live/Latest/347_121296_170010_24022.html "Lawrence Ellison, in an interview during a conference hosted by the database company, said Oracle would create a multimedia on-line service to encourage consumer demand for network

    computers.

    ``You'll see an announcement from us shortly,'' he said, although he refused to specify when the service would start. He said Oracle had devised software for a network-computer server, essentially an operating system that would compete with

    Microsoft's Windows programs but would be far less complex to install and use.

    Critics had said that the relatively low speeds available would make it difficult for the programs to work smoothly, but if much of the software were available on cartridges, this problem would be avoided"

    Private channels like freeloader, backweb, InterMind, Mirinda could down load script in the back ground to be ready to use on demand. This requires a read & write disk or plug-in memory cards that will contain programs.

    Motorola's Platform Software Division and Unwired Planet, Inc. (UP) today announced a formative alliance in which Unwired Planet's UP.Link server and UP.Browser client applications will be supported on Motorola's MemosTM client/server operating system platform. This optimized solution will provide customers with the compelling application of efficiently and economically delivering Internet-based content to wireless communications devices such as cellular smart phones and alphanumeric pagers.

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    A key vehicle for all of these factors is "collaborative learning"--a huge buzz word in education today.

    The research favoring collaborative learning over "traditional" forms such as lecture is staggering. In structured collaborative groups, even sixth graders can develop ways to deal with ambiguity. In one study, they even did the unheard-of: they went to the library voluntarily in search of additional information for their group discussions. College students who work in teams generally outperform themselves as individuals. And so on.

    Collaborative learning helps people see that there is more than one way to approach a problem. It brings out thought processes and mental models so they can be organized, elaborated, and tested.

    Collaborative learning must be "scaffold," however, like any other complex skill (that is, learning is supported through instruction, practice, coaching and feedback).

    People don't just do it well the first time they find themselves in a group. In organizations, we are seeing a reorientation toward participative decision making, flat hierarchies, and teamwork. I think these changes signal a major shift in western culture from an individualist to a collectivist paradigm. (or a new balance of elements of both, individualism in America is more myth than reality- collectivism in Japan is the mirror myth )

    To handle the ambiguity resulting from these changes, we find it necessary to invent or reclaim tools for deep learning--ways to surface our mental models; system archetypes to help us find patterns in "chaotic" phenomena; dialogue to explore meaning together, and communication technologies designed to capture and build on organizational learning.

    My guess is that well-designed learning organizations, like well-designed educational programs, promote greater comfort with ambiguity by identifying and "scaffolding" the requisite skills. "Well-designed" means they provide tools people can use to explore and find a path through the ambiguity instead of having to avoid it.

    They also provide opportunities for people to use those tools to influence their environment (my definition of "empowerment").

    A workplace (or school) with these characteristics ought to come close to fulfilling the promise of Rolf Osterberg's wonderful statement, quoted recently by Peter H. Jones

    Subj: Who wants to "learn"?

    "Work, as every other aspect of life, is a process, through which we acquire experiences and insights and grow inwardly.... "

    The primary purpose of a company is to serve as an arena for the personal ( and collective ) development of those working in the company.

    The production of goods and services and the making of profits are by-products." (From: Corporate Renaissance, 1993; phj@actrix.gen.nz) Creating an environment for growth, whether in education or the workplace, is slow going--and full of

    ambiguities. I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn from and with the people who share their ideas so generously on this list. If you've gotten this far, I hope you'll respond! Joanne Gainen MTD & Associates Specializing in 360-degree feedback for

    communication enrichment, performance improvement, and team development jgainen@aol.com

    ------------------------------------------------- PS

    Developmental "stages" of ambiguity --for the theoreticians in the crowd: It would be too strong to treat the various ways of dealing with ambiguity as universal developmental "stages." ("Stage" has a definite technical meaning in developmental psychology.)

    There is a certain logic to the progression I described in my first message, and some pretty good supporting evidence from many college environments. But there is also a lot of evidence that people don't deal with all forms of uncertainty in the same ways, even at the same point in their lives.

    The idea of "perspectives" or "positions" toward knowledge in a particular context is less confining than "stages" for me. Another way of looking at ambiguity is a personality trait or tendency, or a "disposition." Still another is to consider "managing ambiguity" a skill or set of skills, a kind of expertise one develops with practice, coaching, and feedback.

    I'm an optimist--if it is developmental it can be helped along by a rich environment. If "comfort with ambiguity" is a skill, it can be acquired. If it's a disposition, it can be cultivated. In any case, organizations can tend to suppress it or support it. Joanne Gainen -- JGainen@aol.com Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: -or-


    The Uni-bomber thinks he has special powers - knows something the rest of us don't. He is beyond the regular rules of society - out of it. He doesn't relate to the pain he has caused. He needs to be put away - crazy - has taken the map to be the territory. Builds castles in the air and then moves in. Just a extreme case of what we all do. We all live inside our own reality. I hope we know the difference between our ideas and "reality" - but in groups we can become confused. --

    Reflections on Easter: We are all sinners - the way to a better life includes repentance. (Think again) Since we can't make it on our own - Do we believe that a "higher" power that understanding and forgives us our "sins" Meditation on the power of love, of sacrifice and forgiveness - even to forgive ourselves -

    transforms us and our relationships. This is the 12 steps of AA - I can't do it myself but need help. I am weak and foolish but there will be a path for my feet and a light on the path from above. SO... that's true isn't it ? Man's search for meaning is the grace from the impossible dream - Good Mrs. Murphy will follow me all the days of my life ( from an 8 year old )


    The step of repentance is critical.

    The path of the boot camp, Markarenko' s Road to Life (Communist) the Way of St. Loyola, is the seven stages - Welcome, motivation, goals, repentance, forgiveness, union, and joy (

    The peace that passes all

    understanding ). In less religious terms the way of the hero with 1000 faces (Campbell) involves real change and requires suffering and the rewards of facing our fears and demons. A that's the truth !

    Integration of body/mind/soul and discovery

    of WHAT MATTERS - what really matters ? What if my central skill, product, service that is my living is being replaced ? I am being "down-sized"

    - Winfried, I like your interpretation of the list of

    'leadership' expressions.

    They really are a summary of qualities of a human being.

    Personally I have been very interested in the areas of

    mindfulness and awareness lately. In fact I am a bit disconcerted with the emphasize on Learning. I too often run into people who feel they need to Learn before they can start living or doing what they would like to do. I think people are already whole and complete, and could benefit from just taking a deep breath, looking around themselves and live (or manage, or produce, or create, or build, or whatever).

    Then as they proceed, and find that there are specific Learning that could help them along towards the specific goals they try to reach, THEN they can go find the answer to those questions.

    A lot of the LEARNING discussion implies that we are not ready to start, that we need to learn first. I say we are already ready. We are already doing things. We live, and we work, and we play and interact with people. Besides, I think it is prudent to remember that we can only LEARN that which we are already ready to learn. We can only LEARN what makes sense to us at the time. So what would our days look like if we were more

    concerned about what our next step or action will be, rather than mentally waiting until we get THERE? Trond -- Trond Sjovoll TS Leadership Consulting TrondS@msn.com

    An early example is when in the early 19th century, the American Ambassador to Spain, stole a Marino Sheep (

    The modern woolly kind) and started the wool industry in Vermont. Scottish and English tradesmen brought the new ideas in weaving equipment and a major industry was born.

    The population of Vermont was greater at the time of the civil war than it is today. After awhile, the same transfer took place to Australia and the

    industry was replaced.

    The stone walls in the forests of New England, are the remains of that day. A old case of downsizing.

    The candle makers, manufactures of horse collars, and main frame computers know the effects of down sizing due to technological change. NCR, US Steel, GM and many major firms have struggled with new technologies in their core business.

    The railroads ignored trucks and airplanes, the Polish Cavalry met German tanks in World War II, IBM was attached to typewriters well into the 1970's.

    Public Education, colleges, and Universities have only

    integrated the black-board in it's core technology. Educational technology remains happily in the 18th century. Computers, TV, radio, film, the overhead, telephones, copy machines; do not impact on the core of the industry. In most schools we find teachers in front of rows of students in - talking and using textbooks as the principle mode of production . When there is remote TV its the same technology and content, at a distance.

    There is no organized application of R and D.

    The 40 phonemes in American English allow my computer to decode almost all of the language from writing to sound. School teachers, and the teachers of those teachers do not know phonemics and Johnny can't read. If he doesn't learn to read by third grade, he finds school an unhappy experience. He is very limited as to career, and may well add to the crime problem.

    John Dewey could visit schools today that, except for the striking decline in discipline and standards in general, are the same now as they were in the middle of the 19th century.

    They may not be as good as the rural one-room school Dewey attended in Vermont. Has he points out, school boards, superintendents, teachers colleges, teacher organizations, textbooks, were all developed between 1820 and 1885 and have changed very little. No math developed since the 17th century is taught, the physics is very thin (

    There are almost no qualified teachers of physics in public education - why would there be ? - when all teachers are paid the same and treated like skilled factory workers ). Why ? Politics of 1000's of school boards ? I would claim it's the emotional attachments to roles, positions, and basic insecurity that reinforces such institutional incompetence.

    How do we get in on the Gold Rush ?

    MY IDEA: Global Village Schools is offering an introduction to innovation on the Internet. Register now by E-mail to

    Write

    FEEDBACK FORM sent by SouthWindnet

    . Fee $125.00. For the late breaking news visit newbie.htm and first.htm of the synergy site above. CONTENT: 45 hr 3 credit class over six weeks to six months. Content involves current activities on the Internet, and a skill base in

    Communications, Web servers, editors, chat, ftp, etc. FREE Software = cost of class.

    The intellectual content is on managing change and RAPID innovation. Each student will develop a 100 point ( 1 pt = 1 hr work) portfolio on the Web site for all the world to see. What is in fact learned will depend. .on the student, the changes, the synergy that happens in cyberspace..

    The NY Times on Distant Education Gates talks about the

    Internet as a gold rush.

    On the internet about the Internet - Organization development SMART systems - creativity etc.


    http://www.phoenix.net/USERS/tesmith/HotList/hotlist.html

    By the year 2000, there will be from 200 million to 1/2 billion users of the Internet, world wide.

    They will be in the upper 1/4 of incomes; the technological, and social elite.

    They will run their office systems, ( many in home offices ) word processing, data base, spread sheets; internal and external communications, do business, consult, buy News, office supplies ( office depot ), programs, books, and records ( Media Play ), travel services (American Express), banking, insurance, accounting, investments ( Fidelity ), medical information, legal research, ( West

    Publishing ), consumer products, ( Wal-mart ), special goods ( sports, clothes, all the 100's of catalogs ), and take their classes about Internet applications at the Global Village

    Schools. MOST of the uses have not been invented yet.

    The Virtual OFFICE will let people work in cyberspace with out being there. An organization like Global Village Schools will not be place bound. Teachers, materials, students will all interact in

    cyberspace.

    RE: Not Smart Enough: but could be ? Branch and TRW in the 1960's, then many high tech organizations believe that "general systems", now "learning organizations", can be smart, fast and wise enough to be world class and move with opportunities. I am told there are more than 100,000 empty jobs ( Average pay about $100,000 ) in high tech. Almost anything that can be imagined can be financed. Can smart organizations move from technology to technology, see the future, and make it theirs ? Can they offers educational systems to match this demand ? How about the charter schools, voucher systems business plus just private education in High Tech. ( to match downsizing of older bigger firms )

    These future schools are critical to the welfare of all the people.


    The federal vouchers for training may happen this year. Many states have charter schools.

    The people in the "private education business" are not fast enough with new technology.. how about new or old high tech firms going into "private" training and

    education. Systems wise, cyperspace wise, "learning

    organizations" wise, using general systems as a guide, like Global Village Schools ?? Communist public schools will fall ( sooner than anyone expects) because communism doesn't work. ( In the sense that the public education monopoly, is run by a closed system with goal displacement ). Schools need to be build as "learning organizations", where thinking and doing are whole. General systems is the core of knowledge in the new century. Thinking skills can be learned in practice, in communities of problem solvers.

    Bruner has suggested "going beyond the information given" If we took the idea of organization learning into a free market of public supported but not run, education, a new mobility,

    nobility, and flexibility can promote the general welfare well into the next century.

    The hope of human potential, started again, in the renascence of the 15th century, with the "new knowledge" and reconstruction of ancient wisdom. It came to the new world as the free

    masons faith in human reason.

    People could take care of their own affairs.

    The world need not be divided between rulers, owners, bosses, bishops, kings and peasants. Idealist communities and social democracy spread and grew. Big industry slowly accepted workers as participants. Modern society and democracy depend on independent, educated "middle class", farmers, mechanics, business people and

    professionals who manage their own affairs. We now have a 25% underclass of illiterate peasants with high expectations and expensive maintenance costs. Another 25% is just a little more functional in the "information" society.

    The president of the big 100 corporations and the President are all painfully aware of the "learning gap"; more real and much more serious than any missile gap.

    The future of our economy, thereby the social democracy and republican institutions depends on reductions in the unmotivated, illiterate, pre-industrial urban peasants, and a rapid increase in smarts. This is a economic and social opportunity.

    What Really Matters ? A new book by Tony Schwartz has quite a bit on tennis - Focus and NOT trying too hard calm and routines to keep from getting mad at yourself and making thing harder .. I will look it up for you. Yes I now have the above URL booked marked. We have a rule in our coaching. Zero tolerance for self recrimination. Boy does Volleyball give you lots of opportunities to practice life skills. We will now institute this quote.I will be sending it out to my coaches. Would like to give the proper reference. could you please help?


    The following quote came off the internet at this URL


    http://www.resourcesconnect.com/fieldbook.html

    The quote seems so appropriate to teams and sports organizations. I am interested in feedback on how we can use this idea with our coaching. Have used some of the ideas over the years by having our players be in charge of trips. Usually select 2 players to completely handle a trip, from all phone calls to colecting the money to stting the departure times etc. "A "learning organization" is any

    organization focused on marrying the development of every member with superior performance toward the organization's collective purpose-- whatever it is.

    The more the organization's members increase their ability to learn collaboratively, the more they can accomplish, the higher their performance, and the more effectively they can hope to change the world for the better. Learning organizations can include corporations, small

    businesses, schools, hospitals, government agencies,

    non-profits-- or indeed, any enterprise where people gather to accomplish something that they could not create alone."

    At

    07:48 AM 4/4/96 -0800, Victor E. Lindal wrote: Dear Peter, Just read your note, passed to me by a freind,on "Blue Sky Paradigms" Could you please send me the original and anything you have on the same subject. We are doing some of what you say in our club Volleyball programme. Would love to hear more. Our theme is "Body/Mind/connection and doing more with less effort. Thank you Vic Lindal Victor E. Lindal - Personal Coach

    #301-3235 Quadra St. Victoria, BC V8X 1G4 victor@vicnet.com (604) 383-4623 fax 385-6142

    http://www.hypbus.com/vicvball/ Victor E. Lindal - Personal Coach #301-3235 Quadra St. Victoria, BC V8X 1G4 victor@vicnet.com (604) 383-4623 fax 385-6142

    http://www.hypbus.com/vicvball/


    http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.html Bill Gates on the future NEW March 15, 1996

    TOPIC: EDUCATION GO TO VISIONS Learning-org --

    An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: -or-

    There is a mythology ( not necessarily false - after all Troy did exist ) as old as civilization.

    The key is "in the world but not of it" . Leaders had to abstract themselves from social conventions and seek a "higher reality" or profound knowledge of whole systems, while "pretending" to maintain customs of the people.

    Higher education was a orderly process of taking a look outside the cave of shadows - beyond ego-self to something called "essence", the good, the true and the beautiful - now called

    Quality. Not something hung on the tree like tinsel, but growing from the roots - in its very being.


    The educational model until the last few years was - University people did research, 10 years later it is in the College

    textbooks and 20 to 40 years for new information to be "common knowledge" in school textbooks.

    The professors of subject matter - to teachers in schools was a long slow process.

    The Goals for 2000 silly statement about being first in math and science - was so silly because of this slow technology transfer process. Now with the "information" revolution knowledge comes from all kinds of places, even people without "degrees" and moves with the speed of light.

    Institutional systems can not cope with this.. When I was at HGSE 30 years ago (1965) we talked about "learning systems", open programs for pre-school to death..

    The plan for vouchers ( first in technical and occupational programs ) then in some public school systems, then in college and university training may restructure the market for fast, smart, on-line ( private and non-profit ) learning systems. Remember more than 25% of

    educational money is all ready private - the biggest school system is the military, the next industrial ( in house training ) and 100,000 of trade schools.

    John Dewey wrote in 1905 that "if we lived in a stable world, then the traditional methods, would be OK, but we don't, so we need a strong connection between learning and doing",

    The top down factory model - we do the thinking and you do the doing - workers and students were not expected to think but follow orders. Deming was the practical application of learning organizations, really understand what we are doing and how to do it better.

    When Winnie the poo and Rabbit are helping Eeyore out of the river - Eeyore says " give rabbit time and he will figure it out " People have survived ( so far ) in small groups that solve problems ( like wolves in hunting pack ). Organizational learning, has roots in Industrial dynamics and general systems (ecological roots) where there are counter-intuitive

    interactions. Understanding of complex systems is "profound" because the cultural assumptions don't work. People confuse the map ( mental structures ) with the territory ( what is really going on ).

    The brain/body works by filling in - making

    assumptions and jumping to conclusions. ( Those that thought too deeply were eaten ). In times of danger and in tennis there is no time to think ..so we reach biological limits on speed and change..


    Therefore, there maybe no "quick" fix or any fix at all.. only approximations moving in a positive direction.

    There are no ends only means.

    Give rabbit enough time and he will figure it out.

    Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: -or-

    http://www.umd.umich.edu/~waverydr/webhelp.html Read this on the future of the Internet -


    http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/bill-g/speeches/pdc.htm BILL

    GATES ON THE INTERNET NEW

    The "Learning Organization" the

    Fifth Discipline is understanding the whole system. Ooops, sorry, I forgot I hadn't filled it in....

    The Fieldbook site is at:


    The field book for the Fifth Discipiline And the page we linked to it from is: THE LINK Art's Home page Art Kleiner, Thanks for the other references, though....altavista search for the Fifth Discipline Art Kleiner,

    The COMPLEX SYSTEM = GENERAL SYSTEMS = SYSTEMS THINKING COMPLEX SYSTEMS

    http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~ale/cplxsys.html

    This is a complex system = a biological economy - how to earn a living and find a niche in Cyberspace. A new life form on TIERRA Artificial Life as Philosophy and Psychology Matthew

    Elton

    THE NERD LOCATION From: Richard Karash Sent:

    Thursday, March 28, 1996 9:52 PM To: Peter Pflaum Subject: Complex Systems Readings LO6180 (fwd) Richard Karash ("Rick") | Speaker, Facilitator, Trainer | email: rkarash@karash.com "Towards learning organizations" | Host for Learning-Org Mailing List (617)227-0106, fax (617)523-3839 | <

    HREF="http://world.std.com/~lo" LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

    ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 06:47:37 -0800 (PST) From: Lyle G. Courtney

    The LINK To: Learning-org Cc: Mark Shimada Subject: Complex Systems Readings LIST OF REFERENCES FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS [Host's Note: I asked Lyle to share his reading list on Complex Systems. If anyone has additional readings, or recommendations on how to approach this field, please join in by replying to this msg.] Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: -or- From: James McKinley Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 1996 3:12 PM

    To: Peter Pflaum Subject: Re: Biological Base

    Posting on LO Forum

    Hi Peter, I am curious if you have studied Alfie Kohn's work in "Punished by Reward" and "No Contest"? I believe that both works are very important to all struggling to transform our education systems. If you have studied Mr. Kohn, I am most interested in your thoughts about the arguments presented in both books in relation to educational systems. Also curious if you have studied Dr. Deming's system of Profound Knowledge.

    Best wishes, -- Jim McKinley Excellence in Leadership

    leaders@gulftel.com Peter:

    They are in the references, lots of Deming, the discussion on non-competitive schooling is somewhere I think on NEW doc4.htm TOPIC: PSYCHOLOGY, LEARNING ORGANIZATION and BIOLOGY (Visions)

    The COMPLEX SYSTEM

    = GENERAL SYSTEMS = SYSTEMS THINKING COMPLEX SYSTEMS THE NEXT FAD in education GENERAL SYSTEMS VON BERTALANFFY and

    Change in Social Systems Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: -or- Ooops, sorry, I forgot I hadn't filled it in.... Here is the hot site in learning organizations

    The Fieldbook site is at:

    The field book for the Fifth Discipiline And the page we linked to it from is: THE LINK Art's Home page Art Kleiner, Thanks for the other references, though....altavista search for the Fifth Discipline Art

    Kleiner, You know the hardest part of Total Quality Management is a psychological shifting from X to Z, letting go of control. Our abilities to trust others by changing from managing to serving is really very hard. As a professor, I find it arduous to let go of teacher talk. Managers manage as they have been

    managed. Changing experience -- not preaching change -- is key. Slogans and pontificating hortative language is not effective Deming observes. Alexander Lowen, a student of Wilhelm Reich, developed a set of educational tmols known as bioenergetics. Bioenergetics deals directly with experience where learning is felt in practice, not taught in theory. Dramatic changes happen fairly quickly with these methods. A program as been made of (also the Sufi stuff)

    Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:10:03 -0600 To: Pflaump@interserv.com From: biota@onramp.net (Cynthia S. Smagula) Subject: biological basis I read your posting to the learning organization mailing list with interest. I am interested in the molecular neurobiology of consciousness, and have been following information posted to the web in this area. You may be interested in a book that I am about to publish, calle

    RE: Oh, Really ? Oh Really ? ( is that so ? ) oh REALLY ? ( You expect me to believe that ?) oh - REALLY ? ( That's the way it is ) oh, really, ( sure , come off of it ) OH REALLY ! ( Gee Wizz ) OH MY reality ain't yours .... Most of communications is within context, tone of voice, inflection, body language and other non-verbal clues. We go well beyond the Information given ( Brunner ) in making patterns and fitting what we see, hear, and feel into our experience, into our "systems" or world views. What is strange ( OH, really ? ) or comes from a new or weird sources or sighers we don't see, hear or will actively reject. David Halberson, (

    The Next Century ), Robert Reich (

    The Work of Nations )

    The Concord Coalition people, many others have been telling us we have to straighten up and fly right.

    The message doesn't sell. We CAN have more of everything, NOW, said Ronald Reagan, and other happy talk salespeople; who tell us "credit problems, no problem. You want it all, we will get if for you. We are Spoiled children, over feed, over weight, over sexed, and over here ( A British saying about Americans ) Have a problem; take a pill, take a bath, go shopping, have a drink. All societies, organizations, communities have some sort of elite or ruling class. As Halberstam points out there are establishments which are responsible and somewhat democracy or responsive to the needs of "the people"; there is optimism and hope, oligarchy is not responsive and there is pessimism and hopelessness, as in the "banana republic" we are becoming.

    The "insiders" in Panama, were the rulers who lived behind their walls. (

    The ruling families were Inside in fort when Drake raided Panama in 16'th century and is a book by mother, Melanie Pflaum about Panama )

    The walled communities are signs of oligarchy, who rule only for their own short term benefit.

    TEXT MOVED TO /policy.htm Maybe this will sell:

    The problem,

    The Causes,

    The Solutions: A TV program and political platform:

    The Problem: Social Instability

    The Concord Coalition and William Cohen, retiring Senator from Maine, have focus on the REAL issue rather that the sound and furry of the ILLUSIONS of this political season. As Senator Cohen wrote lately the the Washington Post:

    There is endless motion without movement, rhetorical enemies without interest in the consensus and compromise that produce practical problem solving.

    The checks and balances have become a nasty stalemate, making for more enmity, increasing the pull of extremes, debate becomes diatribes, anger, anxiety, frustration, alienation, replace rational discourse, the chains of inaction makes for political and social check-mate.

    The political system has indulged voters appetites, purchased their votes and passed the bill to the next generation. Surely we can do better ?

    GAEA

    (mother earth) the biosphere and the Dreamtime We are

    as in the LION KING, all part of a fabric of life. We are part of the mass of humanity, and we can't really escape behind walls. We are involved to the seventh generation, we may get out but we leave our children behind.

    The VISION

    The vision of Handsome Lake and in the movie of Peter Weir "

    The Last Wave" is what will happen when the connection the covenant is broken.

    There are biological groves ( or limits ) within the natural order of things.

    There are limits and rules and consequences from breaking the "laws" of nature. Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe -

    The Synergy Network

    This site is a sample of the future class structure. We will have a interactive office/classroom where anyone with a IP address can work on-line with anyone else with a internet connection - share files, chat, I-phone, just like on a LANS but using a NT (WINS) type system. See Bill Gates on the Empire Strikes back.. On the site. SOON Please forward to the right person, the President, Dean, adult education, or Chairman of social science. I am trying to build a class and am looking for a credit home ? Any interest in a remote class at your college ?

    The class Applied Human Relations is listed with GNA (Global Network Academy - MIT). A school, college, University could just pay me the regular adjunct professor fee per 20 students in a class. I can help recruit students on the internet.


    The students would pay the fees to the college, credit or

    non-credit for Intro. to Social Sciences, government, Internet 101 or Sociology, or other titles that may fit. I have a

    textbook-workbook "Applied Social Relations" I wrote for these classes. (American Heritage, Custom Publishing Group: Electronic Bookshelf, ISBN 0-8281-0647-9)

    The quality of the class will be there for all to see; because in will be in an open WEB site, the student work can be evaluated by outside experts. It will be open to public on the web. My resume in on the pages at:


    documents resume.txt and resume05.txt and in peteres.htm and pflaum.htm 30 years or more of innovative instruction:

    YOU collaborate with the future using Interactive Education and Training on your own Web pages. Join, Beta Testers free. ** Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-7924 pflaumppflaumppflaumppflaump@cfl.rr.comBR>

    FEEDBACK FORM sent by SouthWindnet

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    I created for views on the MOST ancient profession with connections to the other ancient professions -

    There is Internet.htm for the information about

    The market and

    applications, for information about servers and web

    pages, html and web pages, and other newbie information - we are all newbies in the new world order 1.

    There is announce.htm for offers of services and general discussion Policy.htm is the general stuff on public affairs and the state of the world and nation I think I will put your comments in these

    files and leave the News pages alone - another effect of the need to remain stable for the search engines

    use "wiredbrain" to do their job.


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