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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
dont 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 todays 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 doesnt 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 100s 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 doesnt do
much for the moral and political, civic character of graduates.
The
rulers of the technology need
wisdom
training quick and fast because they dont 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 its 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 cant 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, its 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
dont 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.
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