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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
http://www.dlcppi.org/ppi/3way/3way.htm
The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for 
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
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3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
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The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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All the Dirt on All the Candidates -
Because character DOES matter
You've come to the right place for dirt, attitude and
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
http://www.dlcppi.org/ppi/3way/3way.htm
The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
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Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
http://www.dlcppi.org/ppi/3way/3way.htm
The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
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I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
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It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
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- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
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The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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All the Dirt on All the Candidates -
Because character DOES matter
You've come to the right place for dirt, attitude and
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
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education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
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Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
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important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
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The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
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Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
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The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
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been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
http://www.dlcppi.org/ppi/3way/3way.htm
The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
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I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
http://www.dlcppi.org/ppi/3way/3way.htm
The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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Because character DOES matter
You've come to the right place for dirt, attitude and
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated
Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state
control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings,
priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave
we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments.
This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption
by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money
having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved
the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in
the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod
or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts
( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander
to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular
superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy
vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit
of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand
freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the
ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative
freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition,
prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a
civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right
or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we
can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to
behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the
role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and
who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater
than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social
responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions
of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
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The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement
are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy
for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm
Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that
the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger
central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor
do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the
source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
There have been only four critical issues in the
History of the American Republic -
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based
on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into
rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of
money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection
of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and
the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes
and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits
for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers
was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is
the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party
is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring
of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common
interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal
financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission
( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline
in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew
itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex
because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of
property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent
majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the
great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate
and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner.
Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear
as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints
on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability
to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces
great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become
more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on
to their children and corporations have great long term influence over
state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of
those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits
from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have
less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods
with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of
the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic
bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights
and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts
and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and
third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control.
Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big
Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the
parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and
rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits
of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular
Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism,
national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism,
imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners,
immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam -
neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is
there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a
world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards
of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in
1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act
of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally
in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid
South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also
moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with
Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility
for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American
enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally
questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral
majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic
issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business
interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is
real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult
in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the
parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and
militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that
tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern
strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build
the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war
"radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the
slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed
masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental
extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners
and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked
for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues.
Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan
all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of
rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership
conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear
extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older
racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism
has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means
- only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic
positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election.
Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election
campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush
because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with
popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social
security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other
side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are
immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision
thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the
dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
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The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
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been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There are only three or four issues that have dominated Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings, priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments. This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts ( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition, prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
COLOR CODES FOR THE PRIMARY:
The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
An even longer view:
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission ( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner. Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on to their children and corporations have great long term influence over state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control. Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism, national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism, imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners, immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam - neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in 1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war "radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues. Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means - only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election. Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the dropping.
America needs a third choice that replaces the
left's reflexive defense of the bureaucratic status quo and counters the
right's destructive bid to simply dismantle government. Such a "new progressive"
governing philosophy sees government as society's servant, not its master--as
a catalyst for a broader civic enterprise controlled by and responsive
to the needs of citizens and the communities where they live and work.
Religion and theology
The
PROGRAM
OF REFORM
Skeleton Closet
http://www.realchange.org/
The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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at a distance
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The agenda: the victory of moderationJust below
the smoke and mirrors, under the cloud of media hysteria, talking heads
and fashion shows there is a common global agenda.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy
that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable
principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for
domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics"
as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian
schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation
through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks
on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation
are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself",
the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations
have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression
and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of
the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past,
began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising
interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations
and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt
many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of
work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets,
privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading
to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New
Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image
of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT
and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes.
No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits
except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked
too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian
Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful
with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and
gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and
the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral
issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental
principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose
morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton
became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should
have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective
of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could
be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism
also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of
"freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program
but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here
and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy
Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular"
conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics
as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence
is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter
the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological
purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the
center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties
and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive
minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which
side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate
position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians
as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control
by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority,
so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation.
Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting
reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests
rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment
and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly
magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe
the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the
ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the
center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional
labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment"
in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in
productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to
production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth
explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement
due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted
along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in
an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter,
better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting
in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make
the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and
resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public
expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center
of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an
aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is
another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to
get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics
is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused
with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological
practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience
of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control
of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics" as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself", the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past, began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets, privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes. No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of "freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular" conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority, so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation. Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment" in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter, better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an aging population lurking in the background.
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead,
influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion,
desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure
passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling
with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what
we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
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McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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-
-
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1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead, influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion, desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution
- Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police
and military force.
The God police of the Christian activists would
control the bedrooms and doctors offices,
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees
of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have
religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual
or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial
are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions
- sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure
feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed
to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order
to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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Ideology is about control of social power by law and police and military force.
The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions - sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
Second Thoughts:
Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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Do we really want him to be president :
While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
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Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
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New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
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to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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While I would like to support McCain in the primaries
because of his reform program. I think he would return "power to the people"
but.. what about the rest - he wants to be a financial conservative - again
a major factor is our new found prosperity - but .. maybe if there is real
structural reform then education, ( really a state and local issue ) health
and other national issue could move forward ?
Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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best loan and phone rates
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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Should I change ( if I can ) my registration from
Democrat, a family and regional tradition, to Republican which whom I don’t
agree with when they hang right - from Goldwater to the contract on America..
Otherwise they are the same middle of the road party as the other one .
http://www.wiredbrain.net/reform.htm
I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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I guess I am a liberal libertarian - a prudent
liberal - like Tony Blair -
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to
buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets
are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost
everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will
be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/post.htm
McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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McCain draws from a very wide spectrum -that is
the road to victory !
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform
would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the
road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also
call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite
radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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Just as important, Mr. McCain will be able to
draw independent voters towards the Republican Party. This was the key
to much of his success in New Hampshire. Registered independents now account
for 15% of America’s electorate.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before
him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of
Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed
to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques
their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his
Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
And win the election in a time when people want
CHANGE - but not much -
He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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He is also a conservative Republican, lest that
be forgotten, with a perfect voting record in the Senate on issues dear
to conservatives’ hearts. Although voters may not particularly care to
notice, Mr. McCain is the antithesis of Mr. Clinton not just in terms of
character, but on issues such as deregulation (fiercely for it) and abortion
(guardedly against it). He differs markedly on foreign policy, too. Where
Mr. Clinton, at least until the past year or so, had to be prodded to take
a reluctant interest in what the outside world was doing,
I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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best loan and phone rates
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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I enjoy seeing the Republican establishment come
apart as the Bush people are trying to make McCain into a liberal ? Even
Rush Limbaugh is coming to pieces as he tries to hold on the a party line
that doesn't have one except an old mantra Less Government, More Freedom
- lower taxes - social bla-bla doesn't work anymore and George W. is no
Ronald Reagan that can turn almost nothing into something that sounds good.
!
As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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2000:
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
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THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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As we all know there is REAL power and money involved.
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment
- well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment - well maybe ?
Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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Message from Bill Bradley-- On to the National
Race
As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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As for the Democrats - does it matter ? After
a remarkable turnaround in New Hampshire, where we overcame a 17-point
deficit to finish in the closest Democratic primary in that state's history,
my campaign is now preparing for the critical battle ahead. A staggering
29 states will hold primaries or caucuses during the week of March 7-14,
including California, New York, Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Georgia and Michigan.
http://www.billbradley.com
Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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at a distance
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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Government should be limited to public goods -
I favor educational vouchers ( because it is good for Public Schools to
have competition ) - and private free markets and competition - free trade
- capitalism when ever possible. But in public goods an active and clever
state action on common interests that can not be left to private interests
- parks, zoos, museums, and planning land use growth control, environmental
regulation, national health plan using free market methods. Government
is part of the solution not the enemy.
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection
between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government
and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side.
In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a
strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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-
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1Cor.8
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-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
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1Cor.10
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-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The reform that is needed is making a firm connection between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side. In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist
control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform
party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM
where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate
in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there
has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was
controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain
says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health
can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
Open secrets .org center for responsible politics
Center for Responsive Politics,
The
http://www.crp.org/index.html-ssi
"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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best loan and phone rates
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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"
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The influence of money is corrupting our ability to
address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American.
Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics
we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American
as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The influence of money is corrupting our ability to address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American. Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American as it does for the special interests."
http://www.mccain2000.com/
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
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1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
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today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
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The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
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New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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His speeches in the Senate have detailed contributions
and the votes of his
colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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colleagues so they are more than unhappy with
him. He has been very specific on the last tax bill and billion dollar
favors grated as quid pro quo for money paid. (
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund
raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill,
the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill, the Defense appropriations bill.
http://www.billbradley.com/
"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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"Nothing breaks down trust in our democracy as
much as big money. Money is like a wall between elected leaders and the
people, preventing leaders from hearing voters' hopes and concerns."
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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IS HERE
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broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
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to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history
of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants
to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two
will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our
First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party
discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following
the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen
and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements
- remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season
.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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-
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1Cor.8
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-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements - remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
http://search.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/search?
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
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What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
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at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
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1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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2000:
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen
in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson
called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups
- over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large
group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which
make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these
families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
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New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups - over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these families of interests.
A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
-
1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
-
1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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A traditional model would be the road lobby -
the transport committees and the appropriations subcommittees, the dept.
of transportation, state road boards - concrete, construction equipment,
auto and trucking interests, gas and oil companies and the unions in these
industries. A one point in the last 50’s and 60’s a fifth of the GNP was
involved with gas run road transportation.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance
to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and
gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different
levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress
and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise
it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not
spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not
health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a
more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to
a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
They never have been on the mountain top and don’t
care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school
- all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there
is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without
the image, the vision of greatness.
-
1Cor.13
-
-
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
-
[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
-
[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
-
[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
-
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
-
[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
-
[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
-
[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
-
[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
-
[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
-
[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
-
[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
-
[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
-
-
-
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1Cor.8
-
-
[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
-
[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
-
[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
-
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1Cor.10
-
-
[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
-
[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
-
[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
-
[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
-
Rock was Christ.
-
-
(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
-
[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
-
[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
-
[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
-
[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
-
[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
BROADBAND
IS HERE
chello
broadband n.v. (chello), www.chello.com, Europe's first and leading broadband
internet service provider and an operating company of United Pan-Europe
Communications (UPC), chello broadband allows cable customers throughout
Europe to benefit from the m@ximum internet experience; always on, super-fast
broadband internet service for a flat fee each month running across AORTA,
Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/plan.txt
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In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced.
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1Cor.13
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[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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[2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
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[3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth
me nothing.
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[4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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[6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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[7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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[8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
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[12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I
am known.
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[13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.
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1Cor.8
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[1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know
that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
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[2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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[3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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1Cor.10
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[1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be
ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea;
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[2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and
in the sea;
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[3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
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[4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
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Rock was Christ.
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(12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same
Spirit.
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[5] And there are differences of administrations, but
the same Lord.
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[6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is
the same God which worketh all in all.
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[7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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[8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom;
to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
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[9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the
gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
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Color is better
than black and white.
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Three dimensions
is better than two.
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Round is better
than flat.
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Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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Europe's first and largest broadband IP network and the largest European
distributed caching service. Near CD quality sound, pin sharp pictures
and a full range of global, national and local content partners are offered
-- all in the language of the country in which the service is offered.
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
Issues
2000:
The
campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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- 1Cor.13
- [1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
- [2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
- [3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
- [4] Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
- [5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
- [6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
- [7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
- [8] Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
- [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
- [10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
- [11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
- [12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
- [13] And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
- 1Cor.8
- [1] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
- [2] And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
- [3] But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
- 1Cor.10
- [1] Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
- [2] And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
- [3] And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
- [4] And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that
- Rock was Christ.
- (12) [4] Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
- [5] And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
- [6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
- [7] But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
- [8] For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
- [9] To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
More
than primary colors.
The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
There
is no freedom or liberty in ignorance, poverty, and chained to false beliefs,
superstitions, fears and bad dreams. It doesn’t take a repressive state,
or police, or brutal company or church to suppress freedom. Right thinking,
correct ideas, and knowledge is a path to freedom. Discipline is required
to gain freedom. Americans are careless with ideas.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The town
meeting is grass roots democracy but rarely develops wisdom or long term
visions. Great organizations of all kinds need extraordinary leadership
and ways of producing the next generation of leaders. This is the establishment.
All organizations need an establishment that is open to outside pressures.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The executive
needs to be strong in order to protect freedom and choice. A weak executive
and rogue legislature is a form of popular slavery to common ideas and
vested interests.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The positive
side of freedom and liberty is the good society, educated, responsible,
disciplined, organized, clean, effective and efficient, sort of Scandinavian,
Swiss, New Zealand, New England, South East England, some parts of the
West Coast have nice neighborhoods, clean environments, good services,
schools, clinics, and people have real freedom to act and do their best
for themselves and their community.
Who cares ?
I have
watched a bit of the candidates political debates.
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
The public
is not ready to even think about the fact the system doesn’t work. Special
interests and factions control elections and legislation because there
is such a need for MONEY to run a modern professional marketing campaign
for office.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
The Chancellor
of the exchequer can with a majority government raise fuel taxes as of
midnight today. We can discuss it and fight about it, and politicians can
collect big bucks from all sides and come to no decision for years.
The founding
fathers were very suspicious of government.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
The system
set up 200 years ago doesn’t work in a global society and can not be patched
up. Campaign reform, tax reform, health reform, educational reform - nothing
really can be done under the current structure.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Since
the Fallow’s article almost 10 years ago http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/logos/fallow01.txt
and fallow.txt I have a changing image of the communications in the age
of technology. I have believed the free market would produce was rational,
logical, technologically economic communications system which looked like
this:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270684.html
"Nortel
has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in
European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with
10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton,
director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
The new
world order is not an idea or ideology but of commerce based on transportation
and communications. Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of
our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
A receiver
dish on your desk or outside on the wall of your house and office broadcasts
and receives digital signals from a transmitters in the neighborhood (
up to 30 miles away - line of sight or maybe not ). This single connection
would provide really high speed broadband - gigs per second - cable, telephone,
Internet ( converged with TV and phone ).
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
If you
wanted to write a letter - using voice recognition from your cell phone
to your NEXUM ( PC network device ) and e-mail it or print it ( using Bluetooth
) or any financial, business, personal transaction it would fly through
the air from where-ever to where-ever.
The 100’s
of millions of new connections in China and the rest of the world without
wires would use the same broadband wireless system.
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The billion
people on the Internet we talked about a couple of years ago ( http://www.wiredbrain.net/packets.htm
are almost here.
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Sure
people will use DSL ( fairly high speed phone on copper ) people will use
two way cable, some people and business will use direct satellite or be
on optic fiber, ( people still ride horses, use wagons, sail boats, and
walk but cars and planes have most of the transport business ) BUT VOFDM,
MMDS will replace most of these wired links by wireless, better, freer
more competitive services. I can’t track down the low power radar (MIR)
time division wideband line of sight transmitter and receivers but it is
being used by the military and seems to have no limits. Optic fiber switches
are in production to handle to backbone and local nodes.
The cost
of communications content is dropping faster than hardware - more that
twice as much at half the cost every 18 months by an order of magnitude
( 10 times more capacity for 1/10th as much cost ) ( Moore’s Law 10 X )
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
In the
near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of
people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating
systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined
with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the
basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The new
school
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
-
Color is better
than black and white.
-
Three dimensions
is better than two.
-
Round is better
than flat.
-
Fast is more
successful than slow.
Civilization
progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man
and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current
instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction
is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation
is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
Students
in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color
or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors
are black and white.
There
are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:
1. )
Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes
place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
3.) there
is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word
is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
The NEXUM
project:
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
The design
of the general communications and computing device.
Design
teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere
working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity,
storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine
interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
Management,
information technology, marketing, human resources and production need
to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers
still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems
analysis different
from
what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more
dimensions.
It becomes
much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications,
using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and
how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program
do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all
this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com
has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric.
Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended
data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to
show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office
supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the
cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices
as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales.
It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different
items.
A friendly
server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial
records and market research. Can any client using different tools access
open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers
or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would
the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find
the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards,
? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing
systems.
The invention
of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy
Color
is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to
be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the
control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile
there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly
two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
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In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
We have
bodies, ( Blue ) which include a mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking
we have ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat
us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define our mood ) ( Red )
- We are aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the
inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate ( black ).
We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When
groups are organized the iron law of bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron
Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
http://www.au.spunk.anarki.net/texts/places/germany/sp000711.txt
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Now we
are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has
the National Education and Teachers Unions fail to promote education and
teaching ? Why does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the
majority of the people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from passion,
truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so false and thin - a ghost in a
machine. Where is the spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering
enlightenment and responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic culture become a captive
of marketing ?
Corruption:
It has
always been with us. It is a constant cancerous force in all times and
all cultures and with all people.
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, a system of shared benefit, all are busy and productive,
have advanced skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man
and nature. In other words are like the Swiss, a small country divided
into regions, cantons, villages with real and active participation.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
Corruption
is a product of size. While evil empires have been a mainstay of history,
the bulk of people lived in agricultural villages where thieves had limited
careers. Only in this century has big become common with the invention
of technology to support extensive enterprises, private and public.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
So we
know the ailment and the cause.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
Political
units can be smaller. Elections can be tiered - indirect so the people
select those that select the next level. That was the design of the electoral
college. Regional government is very useful.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
Clearly
a society, company, school or village will progress if the members are
moved by synergy, they all benefit, all are busy and productive, have advanced
skills and hardware, and pay attention to the laws of man and nature. In
other words are Swiss a regional small country.
In short
why John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit
moves in mysterious ways.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
the political
market and media babble ?
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Unable
to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge:
from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality
forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life
to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment
from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the
equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
Symbian
joint venturebetween Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will
be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such
as the consoless Sony
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain
' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to,
or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd
or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst
broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking
device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog
) that creates the connection to the life force.
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The
Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal
access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects
you to the backbone of the internet.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything.
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are (
kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference,
word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
Of course,
market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions.
BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social
physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder
reality.
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
Like
the human brain, the internet's packets systemcan reconfigure itself to
work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits
of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded
that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic
would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
"packets,"
each
containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule, and able to
replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With
many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the
Internet, click here for
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
http://www.wiredbrain.net/image.htm
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which
are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
The
contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide
cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales
provide the profits.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and
a thousand other products and services.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last
week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom
market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5
licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS),
and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
Advanced
technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to
get ahead of the curve in both the learning and technology game. I have
been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on
the NEXUM project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
and a few other pages I could do remote education and training - project
projections - systems analysis or just communicate with a group, motivational
manager, thinking out of the box, win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL
can do what Sears did.
The
Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with
Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their
providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments
from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
Their
perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real
and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a
cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing,
mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images,
formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new technology
which enable the research to create multi-search engine archives and move
fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since most browses limit bookmarks
and are prejudice in the use of search engines, commercial interest now
overwhelm academic or professional standards and interest.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then
look at http://www.wiredbrain.net/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about 5
to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get an idea
of their advantages and limitations.
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO
networks engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the
way but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
The
connection of GPS, tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without
great bandwidth can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less
banking, travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other
data such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what ever
you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games including day
trading, security systems, ( little transponders at each window and door
), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
The
concept of a virtual organization - of a transitory network of individuals
coupled together by advanced communications technologies - continues to
grow in prominence. However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses
a significant problem when attempting to analyze the business potential
of linking remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute within
the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME - Cavendish Management
Resources - is presented. Both practical and theoretical insights into
new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches will
be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100 gigabytes."
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE could become so inexpensive and so pervasive
that we'd never again have to think about deleting old data; digital video
might become as common as text is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating
disk drive industry could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant
wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
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Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
They
oversee 60,000 schools for 55 million students. About a fourth of students
are in different schools or districts by the end of each year there has
been a 25 % turnover. In some places it’s much higher, some lower.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
The
secret is that it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents,
principles, teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get bad
grades, will be held back !
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other. Critical
mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages before it become
really economic. Radio needed stations and receivers, computers application,
and political ideas are very similar.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil liberty, economic
freedom and open markets must include drugs, free trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does not
have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have been constrained
by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent on strong central power
that only rarely has to use force as an exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
The
existence of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex, defused
and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false impressions. We
are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly proclaimed. We are NOT
a popular democracy, but a republic with all kinds of barriers to the general
will. We are not the most free and the home of the most brave, but a diverse,
half educated, confused, commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive,
arrogant, etc. Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
industry has discovered that aroused people are more likely to act on the
commercial message that is the heart and soul of the media.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social Security funds
when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts in
discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
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campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The
birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this year, will
probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of the earth as a
Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through space, you will appreciate
its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
The
public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his blue dresscoat and short
pants, salute his slain father. It cheered as he emerged with his dazzling
bride from their secret wedding in 1996. And as he sought a measure of
privacy even while forsaking a career in law or government for a role in
publishing, the public never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings
of his family's fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
The
fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes
us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The
couple lived in Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations
and a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
The
6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to bicycle, rollerblade, dance
and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
The
New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
The
song was named by Jackie Kennedy in an interview shortly after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination as one of which her husband was particularly fond.
Official biographer William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining
Moment.
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campaign
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With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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The color
codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social
events and human psychology.
Blue - is
a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In
biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure
or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax
cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities
for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is
the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action
- a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick
up energy - getting something done.
The public
is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time
of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush
and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other
weak forces still matters.
Red is passion
- force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for
better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions
among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against
them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment,
the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will
not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame
the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will
seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth
tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the
character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional
politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the
professional practiced style.
white - the
entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are
we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless
capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is
turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears
and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns
work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery
- feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy
mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like
meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the
popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really
have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the
sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election
with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner
will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans
and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general
election of the effective vote.
The battle
is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland
candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates
the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the
center.
If Bush feels
he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will
loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government,
more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful.
Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of
being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political
finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the
suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything
from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and
bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and
the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down
to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
Two sides of
freedom :
As Russia struggles
to deal with the modern world the expectation of freedom takes a different
style from a different philosophy and historic environment from concepts
and traditions of the Americans. Freedom has a positive side - the resources,
knowledge, and ability to take action - rather than the western idea of
liberty - the rights and privileges of citizens and being left alone.
They believe
all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy
and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore,
they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of
government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen
and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
Political marketing
is not the way to select statesmen.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be
more responsive because of real competition.
The dictatorship
of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only
more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective
we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality,
cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive
and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great
civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
Who cares ?
The vast majority
of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make
who is elected ? Very little.
While Senator
McCain and Mr. Forbes, and others, attack the "system" they refuse to get
into the serious constitutional issues. Bradley thinks about candor.
In other democratic
societies, the parliamentary system, creates a government that can govern.
If you don’t like the people in power you can elect an opposition.
They wanted
minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When
civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic
they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance
ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was
no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond
a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial
code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
There is a
basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite
the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based
on global experience on what works.
The German
Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand
and Australia for example.
The mantra
of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE
- we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False
- we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced
nothing, WHY ?
The system
is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
A clear image:
Also some new
technology may come along to change all the rules
If physicist
Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands
of miles over electric lines at the speed of light he will produce perhaps
the most significant development in communications since Alexander Graham
Bell. That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion
L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the creation
and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT. connected
to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our time - having
more importance than the silly political debates, because economics come
from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly the railroads,
automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are the drivers of our
history - culture - social being - and therefore our economy and political
system.
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The big business
will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line.
You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where
ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all
the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device
knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
The phone
companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer
hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It
is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm
The Internet
as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet
connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth
and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and
more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $
50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off
Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Symbian,
Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who
purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are
kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents,
are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult
to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks,
such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive.
And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system.
Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce
the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony.
This will never happen.
It's a problem
crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I
told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of
the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software
titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken,
as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because
they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more
than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that
you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device
would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you
never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up
for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using
it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't
lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would
be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software.
You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for
the masses
Instead of
buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would
send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet
connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would
simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on
the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing
anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's
hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services
with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would
want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you
could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired
of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump
on it.
The technology
to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as
movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent
of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such
momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of
oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette
is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange
and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
The iron law
of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
The organizing
themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions
not disciplines
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities,
applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market
demand factors all in one organized package.
NEXUM
How is systems
analysis different
BROADBAND
IS HERE
http://www.inside-cable.co.uk/n98q4apg.htm
In short why
John McCain issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves
in mysterious ways.
The history
of human development and civilization and organizations of all kinds from
the church, state and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical
body come first ( blue ) when people find they can be better off within
a group, they need society for survival or want to gain power, wealth,
position, control, comfort, and use their minds to ( yellow ) get organized.
This is the habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church
and state, the divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
"Robert Michels"
Michels believed
that the people in this group would become enthralled with their elite
positions and more and more inclined to make decisions that protect their
power rather than represent the will of the group they are supposed to
serve.
"Michels (1911)
came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies inevitably
leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic and
democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility. This can
occur in large organizations because it becomes physically impossible for
everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently,
a small group is given the responsibility of making decisions.
Those in command
do not share - there is a failure of synergy. Those that do but are not
rewarded get angry ( red ).
The early
church was a synergy group but became a bureaucracy with conflicts between
the clergy, the state and the people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the divine rights of
kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed
the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church
or state or company then claimed a greater good based on interests. That
sort of works.
Then they
appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised
the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned
love into hate and hate into love.
They discovered
the art of commercials and the skills of marketing.
Corruption:
The question
is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies
but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over
money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more
of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
The world
is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like
Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan,
many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is
stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia,
Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban
China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half
of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption,
violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses
forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist
movements.
The iron law
of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects
are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory
of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful
human contact.
The battle
of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools,
drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition
of being sick.
The treatment
is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less
administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t
have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat
anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service
- their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as
they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects
of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals,
area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment,
and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a
the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been
rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental
disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number
is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
There are
few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the
age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within
a global economy.
The need for
the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder
rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced
technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
What are the
great issues facing the world vs.
If we can
see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger
universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can
look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known
now if we had paid attention ?
The elements
in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these
forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint
action we are able to make.
These factors
are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas
that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination
from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken),
Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher,
essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement
of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a
theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that
came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed
to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience
as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image
of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word
History:
The word Frankenstein
has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from
parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as
the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted
in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of
the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has
gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an
agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.”
Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his
creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle
of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard
discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities
that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no
more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully
on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture
of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Modern Times
Lewis Mumford
(1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct
Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern
city.
Individual
development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power
comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Wiredbrain's
Symbian homepage
’s PlayStation
2
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service.
With
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek
Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness
n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person
of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a
weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires
inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence:
“At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold”
(Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly
unsettling: “
The queer
stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes
seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems
so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He
could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another
Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are
technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio
waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such
as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
Behind the
news: a common thread of interconnectedness
NEWSTRACKER
new technology
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
The
device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation
services are coming
soon
to a mobile phone near you --
but
first the platforms and standards
have
to be resolved.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers
possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing
double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
A
machine called NEXUM
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones,
broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all
of the above ?
The
Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be
updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't
need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system
network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different
forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess
each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and
Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone
else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author
in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.net/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX,
virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications
systems can communicate with each other.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee
as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled
the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global
- the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The
WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international
postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the
approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral
or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars
in systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
In
the
current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The
misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s
problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.)
Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.)
The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction"
of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the
next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of
the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The
theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections
between utility network computers.
NEXUM
"packets,"
Key
word "infrastructure"
http://www.wiredbrain.net/information.htm
All
Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What
does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company
and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global
society ? What is the image they pursue ?
CONVERGENCE:
Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and
cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell
on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What
is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies
or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only
to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The
role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct
sales.
Their
dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In
the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance
voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the
broadband connections really works then personal computers become network
devices or
AOL
Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections
they will control the content.
It's
not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click
here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples
for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People
really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after
getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions,
even pick appliances and cars.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/disintermediation.htm
disintermedation
means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line
systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning.
I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Broadband
frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband
Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
The
licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15
years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license
to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial
cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The
battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't
work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high.
Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology
using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions
per day.
The
dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world
markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role,
but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure
to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only
capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications
that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo
seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless
device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers
the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning
to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users
will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences
and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation
mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring
of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start
of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003.
The
five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America
and 114% in other regions.
The
Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked
in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open
to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable,
data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by
the telcos.
The
cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access,
and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities,
unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time
remote consulting:
AOL
can do what Sears did.
of
the 21st century.
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever
be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background
is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no
way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways
impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves
models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a
fifty mile range.
The
irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics
and commercials.
NOW
as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little
understood as the physical.
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that
it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The
leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional,
mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos -
morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because
global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft
Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With
the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice
provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user
experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice Writer for document editing,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
And
it's free
What
science knows
MSN
now does the best search
OUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students
and professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool.
First you need
some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and Netscape ( why
not both ? )
Then find
and down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to set
them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number limits.
All the multi-search
work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the
sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages
( not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and paste to notebook
or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word processor. By using an unformatted
plain text insert you may avoid hard returns and other editing errors that
will transfer with the text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns
or hard returns that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can
highlight the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By
using the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in Explorer
right click "save picture as" BE sure to give credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important
as the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4 terabytes
in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all using
personal communication systems and very smart cards - every transaction
can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines, ticket-less travel,
using a smart card with memory and a small web connection. Add the GPS
and the map is the territory; anywhere and anytime all is in a cell phone
type device. You can not only know where you are all the time but "the
system" can know where you or your kids are or where your car is.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and economic
transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as communications.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers Michael
Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from Britain's
Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources (CMR), of a "3-D
Memory System" that promises this magic. And they expect that this could
be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per
square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second.
While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does
indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade
and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical
system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed,
solid state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low power
storage
NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"
It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100 megabits/second,
could this also replace conventional semiconductor memory for some applications?
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true" category, and
healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand, the Aug. 10 London
Daily Mail does point out that this is the same Ted Williams who "...led
the team that built the ground-breaking nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner
for EMI," and so it should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High Density"
hopes, imagine the implications: storage
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to pass
based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that such innovations,
this one or another one from some other source, do have the potential to
"change all the rules" in the blink of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of an
amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables" lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server - http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg
]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see a
complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the matches
in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web server
was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the CPU, memory,
serial port, and file system -- literally everything needed, and connects
to an Internet router via a serial connection. Indeed, you can directly
surf this match head Web server through a link on the page that describes
this accomplishment in more detail - http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers that
power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller Web servers,
so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance." Think "Internet-enabling"
just about anything, like light switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled
cell phones. Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is clearly
not all that far away...
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months
Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees.
There
is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables,
reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These
standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what
they are expected to know or do.
They
are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there
is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance
there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up
to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students
are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they
can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary
education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost
of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready
for post secondary education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery.
There
is no way that is popular.
The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault,
it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the
part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce
standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers
who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up
most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity
contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific school
teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of good schools,
and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality of youth entering
the labor market. So some states have tried to impose external standards.
NOW if you empress external standards on a system with quality faults,
you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some schools can pass the buck when
John fails by talking about external standards - but there will be a lot
of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail go
someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get rewards
and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you don’t get a year,
or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are less effective
than someone who can. Competition gets your attention. It can bring pressure
to hold to standards - of attendance, dress, conduct, homework, behavior,
learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century.
The
early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage-
automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The
political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil
rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme
views become common and take over a critical mass.
The
drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to
take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for
such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of
the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence
are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism
was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and
militarism caused great world wars.
The
war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have made
more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are in fact
enemies of social peace and order.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but because
of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for the
safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show business
which reflected his experience in this world. He was from birth a political
celebrity or "super star", exploited by the media to sell product. You
must remember that TV is a means to draw an audience, stimulate their psychics,
cause arousal by sex, violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what
ever means necessary to sell the product.
The
death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera.
There
is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone down.
The
cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be
telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and entitlements
such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other words, the politicians
would have you believe they can either give you a tax cut or spend
more money on your favorite programs first, then cut other spending
later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000:
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )
240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion to
6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114 million acts
of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost celebrated
political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in an accident that
resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying to
a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's Vineyard.
His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths of his father,
two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him, only added to the perception
that his larger-than-life family has been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma and
its curse.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced frequently
by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of those to whom
much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught English to underprivileged
children, aided people who were homeless and disabled, and was a patron
of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be searching
for his place in the public constellation, the expectations for him as
great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was conscious of his
burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said in a 1993
interview. "It's my family.
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of politics,
but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture into publishing
was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office. He
made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National Convention
in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which called a generation to public
service, he received a two-minute standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler playing
under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young lawyer and avid
athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988 People Magazine called
him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960, just
three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was elected president.
He was the first infant to live in the White House since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one indelible
moment of family heartache and American history, the boy stood outside
St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother and sister, raising
his hand in a salute as he squinted in the sun while his father's
coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down
and whispered to him in advance to salute, a gesture the boy had seen many
times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major preoccupation.
When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his maturity, adding, "Sometimes
it almost seems that he is trying to protect me instead of just the other
way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that Secret
Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But his mother worried about
her children's safety, especially after Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle,
was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets," Jacqueline Kennedy
said at the time. "I want to get out of this country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his ability to
provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to give
her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in Central
Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her bodyguards
that her son "must be allowed to experience life," and that "unless he
is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New York.
"I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th grade
at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family tradition, he
went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating in 1983. He majored
in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous amateur
theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage life would expose
him too much to the media from which she had tried to shelter him. Eventually,
he enrolled in law school at New York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother.
He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him to
keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan
district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he said after
the New York tabloids labeled him the "Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0 conviction
record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he left the district
attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't want to be just another passenger
on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette Filipacchi,
a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most illustrious political
dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both connected him to his family's
past and enabled him to strike out on his
own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business cards,
observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think everyone needs to
feel they've created something that was their own, on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a much-discussed
George essay published in August 1997, he described his first cousins Joseph
and Michael as "poster boys for bad behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and inviting
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's guest at the
annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington last spring. Last
March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson, whom Kennedy pronounced
"a friend" who was "much different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on a
barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides educational
and other opportunities for workers who help people with disabilities.
William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up, said, "He was always
concerned with the working poor, and his family always
had an interest in helping them." Ebenstein
said Kennedy helped expand the organization.
He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic endeavors.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials at
the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the monument, although
he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces of Jefferson, Roosevelt,
Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on Martha's
Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount his
own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago, Alfonse D'Amato,
the former Republican senator from New York who signed on as a contributor
to George, said Kennedy would make a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion that Kennedy
laughed off.
"A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a televised interview
four years ago. "And you better be ready for it, and you better have your
life set up for it, and you better be prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of Manhattan.
Copyright
1999
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the American
experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph Patrick
Kennedy, 1888–1969, b. Boston, engaged in banking, shipbuilding, and motion-picture
distribution before serving as chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (1934–35) and head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (1936–37).
He was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate article
KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 1925–68, b. Brookline, Mass., served (1961–64)
as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres. Kennedy's death and was
elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In 1968 he sought the Democratic
presidential nomination, but after winning the California primary he was
mortally wounded by a gunman, Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932–, b. Boston, has served
as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman for liberal
causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health insurance and
tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by the Chappaquiddick
incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in a car he
was driving on an island near Martha's Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when
the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy
CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys
to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because
we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they
were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious
family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy
breasts.
P.
J. O’Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance, "Mordred Had
a Point—Camelot Revisited" (1992). "Two were shot," O’Rourke wrote of the
Kennedy’s, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might
have been hoped, after due process of law."
Ask
every person if he’s heard the story,
And tell it strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.
Alan
Jay Lerner (1918–86), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title song of
musical Camelot (1960).
Issues
2000:
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four )
important differences between the United States and other "modern" societies:
1.) We have money driven political systems,
2.) We don’t have a health system, or a National
Educational program, urban policy etc.
3.) We allow open sales of firearms.
Senator
McCain is right that we can’t have useful public policies about health,
education, social security, taxes, or much else when decisions are driven
by money in politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/
Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate Washington.
Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
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