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“The world we live in appears to be falling apart at the seams.”

12 Monday Jan 2015

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Because the technological revolution has brought a new standard of wealth, health and comfort to the people’s of First World countries. Never in history has a generation differed as greatly from those of the past.

It “has created a crisis of sustainability as our propensity to consume exceeds our capacity to conserve diversity and control wastes; removing national barriers has exposed poor and ill-equipped Peoples to the threats as well as the benefits of free trade and competitive markets; globalizing communications has reduced cultural diversity and exposed everyone to the temptations of an often materialistic and trivial international media industry.”

The problems seem overwhelming. Why? It’s not Rocket Science.

People reach a point in which they believe that money should be obtained
regardless of the cost. We would be lead to believe that we live in an “enlightened society” by our worlds leaders, but the truth remains that poverty, hunger and human misery remain very much evident in society today.

The gap between the rich and the poor is widening and will keep widening because more and more middle class society is forced into the lower class and in turn creating more poverty.

In order to eliminate any of these issues we must redefine what we believe is an enlightened society.

The development discourse and practice has been based on a rational approach that assumes that economic growth benefits all society, reducing both poverty and inequality is not working nor will it ever work because of greed.

It seems bizarre, that we, modern, intelligent people, have not yet succeeded to get rid of the differences between DCs (developed countries) and LDCs (less developed countries).  We have not been able to counter rich-countries’ biased trade policies. The Western framework of democratic institutions that has given support, and meaning, to economic liberalism and therefore to “fair dealing” has itself been called into question. Growth with inequality is an explosive mixture, one in which the very rich and the very poor live side by side in large urban centers. This fuels many forms of social conflicts creating a vacuum of meaning in Western democratic institutions.

The contradiction between rich nations’ development aid intentions and their actual trade practices has a negative result among LDC populations. A country’s commercial practice, like its culture, can be, rightly or wrongly, identified with its people’s beliefs. In developing countries, it’s more about having access to what we would consider basic necessities, such as indoor plumbing and running water, food, clothes, and maybe even electricity.

A person who does not have a lot of money cannot live in an upper class neighborhood because their economic status deems them unfit for that neighborhood. There are very few choices that the lower class has thus, there are more people living in poverty and more “middle class” society being forced to live in poverty. All around us we see people segregated by class. From the cars we drive to newspapers we read, there are noticeable differences.

There is a wealth of opinions and viewpoints but no one perfect solution, with a sharp increase in violence during the last decade of ever-increasing globalization. Wealth isn’t just about money or status income inequality is the main division. The power of the rich over the majority of the poor.

The use of that power in relation to globalization: within the unstable political and economic setting of LDCs, inside information is vital for international businessmen. Those who hold economic, political and/or informational power in LDCs are in a position to channel investment and/or development where they want. The overall result is an even larger imbalance of power, which restrains fair negotiation and conflict transformation/resolution practices.

We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. The old imperialism — exploitation for foreign profit — has no place in our plans. What we envisage is a program of development based on the concepts of democratic fair dealing.

While the existence of such a divide is unquestionable, its origins, structure, and consequences are not. Could one, for example, securely say that income gaps lead to conflict? It could be argued, that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacks on what the perpetrators’ identified as symbols of the main source of LDCs’ growing poverty and inequality:

To some extent, local-scale rich-poor conflicts mirror the conflicts between LDCs and the rich nations. Is it possible to relate intractability to this divide?

Poverty has been approached in both absolute and relative terms. “Absolute poverty” is a measurable quantity referring to a lack of the basic resources needed to maintain a minimum of physical health, normally calculated in calories or nutritional levels. “Relative poverty” has a qualitative dimension. It refers to general standards of living in different societies, taking into account culturally sensitive interpretations of poverty, and variations between and within societies over time.

For those concerned with social policies and economic growth, inequality is normally interpreted as lack of equality of condition, that is lack of achievement of any given welfare indicator (e.g. income, consumption) or any valuable attribute of a population.

The reduction of poverty levels within any given society may not imply a reduction of inequality, because all classes in society may benefit simultaneously from economic growth, keeping the same proportion among them.  While it seems clear that inequality is undesirable, there is a great deal of debate over the desirability of total equality. One debate over equality questions is the meaning and value of concepts such as class, status, power, and authority. These cannot, it is argued, be completely equalized without suppressing other values such as personal freedom and individualism.

Welfare: It has a much broader meaning, referring to the general state of well-being that an “entity” enjoys. Here, “entity” can be taken as a person or as a state, thus one can speak in terms of “personal well-being” or “welfare of the state.”

The larger the difference in income between a country’s rich and poor, the larger the inequality. Inequality is likely to obstruct the rate and quality of economic growth.

Recent events in France (mostly caused by a pre-conditioned belief of each other) is a wake up call not to the suppression of freedom but to the Inequality of opportunity that exist in the world to develop. How can democracy really exist in a country where most of us do not participate in the decision-making where we spend so much of our lives? If workers can’t democratically control their economic lives, are they really free?

Here in the EU the dairy sector receives subsidies of around $16 billion $2 per day per cow, while equivalent to more than Half the world’s people live on less than this amount.

As I have said it’s not rocket Science we must Cap Greed to contribute to all.

 

“There is no democracy in  form of Capitalism.”

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Free speech rights still need constant, vigilant protection. New questions arise and old ones return.

11 Sunday Jan 2015

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This post does not condone any action that expresses its self in the murder of Innocent people anywhere in the world.

My interest here is what it is we think freedom of speech is and what principles need to be in place to ensure an individual’s right to freedom of opinion and expression, and why? Where do we draw the line?  Do we need to?

It is imperative that countries allow freedom of expression and speech in the media, Internet and on the radio to maintain a successful country economically, socially, politically, and to eliminate any dangerous.

If we do not come to the defense of the free speech rights of the most unpopular among us, even if their views are antithetical to the very freedom expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, dated 1948 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1976  then no one’s liberty will be secure.  All  theses rights are “indivisible.

The repugnant lost of Life in France once again shows that ours is a world rife with interlocking systems of oppression that serve to harm groups of people based on criteria such as gender, sexuality, disability status, economic status, race, ethnicity, and religion.

The path to freedom is long and arduous. Many people suffered along the way, but the “right” to freedom of expression is not final and absolute.

On the other hand the right to express one’s thoughts and to communicate freely with others affirms the dignity and worth of each and every member of society, and allows each individual to realize his or her full human potential.

Thus, freedom of expression is an end in itself — and as such, deserves society’s greatest protection.

These days there are many shadows where freedom resided other than in speech books, newspapers, leaflets, and rallies, press, cartoons, media, such as symbolic speech in works of art, T-shirt slogans, political buttons, music lyrics and theatrical performances not to mention being online.

The anonymity of the internet allows people to express their opinions without being pre-judged”. Anonymity gives power – it can offend, but it also gives people a voice. It can be extremely helpful for activists – it can provide a platform for things that need to be said. However, some feel it contradicts the self-exposure purpose of social networks and it is important to consider who you are talking to in a debate.

Should the Internet be subject to any form of government control?

If you consider that the Internet itself doesn’t give a person a voice, rather it give them the opportunity to use their voice, and for a vast number of users who already use their voices, in terms of stating their thoughts and opinions offline, the internet merely facilitate in a greater way their desire to speak out on matters causing them concern.

In my opinion we should not give the government the power to decide which opinions are hateful, for history has taught us that government is more apt to use this power to prosecute minorities than to protect them. History teaches that the first target of government repression is never the last.

So can there be or should there be  “Control of the mind”

When you consider that Freedom of Expression (FoE) is an essentially enabling democracy providing a gateway to the realization of many other human rights. The foundation of self-fulfillment. The attainment and advancement of knowledge, and the search for the truth.

Should we be defending the free speech rights of groups that spew hate, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis, ISIS.

In a perfect world, if a person or group of people wished to express their prejudices regarding another group (or groups) of people to society at large, that expression would not matter. The only harms that would come about from such an expression would be the public humiliation, chastisement, and exclusion of the person or group expressing those views by the rest of society.

But we live in a world far from perfect and Freedom of expression is been tested over and over again. Especially during times of national stress, like war abroad or social upheaval at home.

It will continue to be so as the eminent 19th-century writer and civil libertarian, John Stuart Mill, contended that enlightened judgment is possible only if one considers all facts and ideas, from whatever source, and tests one’s own conclusions against opposing views. Therefore, all points of view — even those that are “bad” or socially harmful — should be represented in society’s “marketplace of ideas.”

At the same time, freedom of speech does not prevent punishing conduct that intimidates, harasses, or threatens another person, even if only words are used.

However in today’s world, we have delegated many of our daily decisions to computers.

On the drive to work, a GPS device suggests the best route; at your desk, Microsoft Word guesses at your misspellings, and Facebook recommends new friends. In the past few years, the suggestion has been made that when computers make such choices they are “speaking. In 2003, in a civil suit brought by a firm dissatisfied with the ranking of Google’s search results, Google asserted that its search results were constitutionally protected speech.

” WHAT DOES “PROTECTED SPEECH” INCLUDE?

In answering this questions speech should only be punished if it presented “a clear and present danger” of imminent harm.  Another words pure speech characterized by  hate and not “Symbolic speech” — nonverbal expression whose purpose is to communicate ideas.

To give protection to commercial speech (like advertisements) is to give computers the rights intended for humans. To elevate our machines above ourselves.

Pornography is another one of those issues that borderline between free speech and sensibility.

The amount of speech that can be curtailed in the interest of national security over used the concept of “national security” to shield itself from criticism, and to discourage public discussion of controversial policies or decisions.”right to know” is essential to its ability to fully participate in democratic decision-making.

There is a clear need for transformative change in order to achieve a human rights-based sustainable.

The time has come to stop using the freedom of speech as a hazard net and start modifying our racist and hateful behavior. Those with unpopular political ideas have always borne the brunt of government repression.

The danger is that freedoms are supposed to protect citizens from authorities, not the politicians from the citizens.

If we the people are to be the masters of our fate and of our elected government, we must be well-informed and have access to all information, ideas and points of view. Government can limit some protected speech by imposing “time, place and manner” restrictions. This is most commonly done by requiring permits for meetings, rallies and demonstrations. But a permit cannot be unreasonably withheld, nor can it be denied based on content of the speech. That would be what is called viewpoint discrimination — and that is unconstitutional.

Mass ignorance is a breeding ground for oppression and tyranny, fueled by expressions of intolerance and non-acceptance.

Should flag burning be a crime?

What about government or private censorship of works of art that touch on sensitive issues like religion or sexuality?

Hate speech is defined as “speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against someone based on his/her race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.” Threatening phone calls, for example, are not constitutionally protected. Libelous statements” “obscene” material fighting words … which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace,” are not protected

In taking on a role of international ambassador for freedom of speech French history unfortunately (like most countries in the world has dark moments when it comes to freedom) is blemished. Indeed any country that trades in Arms in my opinion is unfit to talk about freedom.

The real danger now it that we allow more restrictions to our freedoms. However, ours as I have said  is not a perfect world and there are clear and present dangers.

The problem of intolerance is not endemic to any one country or context.

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All of us suffer from the same fatal disease called life.

08 Thursday Jan 2015

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In today’s modern world we take so much for granted that life is not what it seems. 

In an infinite universe you are not unique you are insignificant.

How quickly we have regressed from all life having value to negotiating the circumstances of our own and other’s demise. Should we have the ability to value our own lives, or is this something we should ask the government to do for us or is it really impossible to put a value on human life.

The “infinite” value of a “priceless” human life is under attack.  Death is not an event of life so is our earthly life meaningless?

Every thing has being figured out except how to live in a world that is so complicated so diverse, that it is beyond must human comprehension. Unless it’s a Muslim accused of terrorism, in which case they should be dispatched post-haste.  After the outrage dies down, nothing will change.

Here is an overview of Life. 

To Quote Jason Silva

” FOLLOW YOUR BLISS AND THE UNIVERSE OPENS DOORS FOR YOU WHERE THERE WERE ONLY WALLS.”

Realize that society cannot spend an infinite amount of money to protect and extend each person’s life, and some choices have to be made in the realm of health and safety regulation. We have to decide to what extent we are willing to expand resources to prevent unnecessary death rather than improve education, increase handicap access, or ensure a cleaner environment.

These days Money, after all, represents the distilled life of the person who earned it. And if life has any value, then people should be at ethical liberty to spend it as they wish. But not everybody believes that. Is cloning humans moral?  How about stem-cell research, which offers the near-term prospect of practically eternal life? How about selling body parts?

Online bidding at eBay pushed the price of a kidney to $5.7 million before the web auctioneer stopped the bidding because it violated federal laws. The offering, posted by a Floridian named ‘Hchero’, read as follows: “Fully functional kidney for sale. You can choose either kidney. Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course, only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only.”

As well as online auctions of human eggs, which has also been made illegal. A California entrepreneur launched a new website allowing infertile couples (among others) to bid on the ova of beautiful models and actresses.

Estimates were that bids could go as high as $150,000 at the website, which attracted nearly 5 million hits in the first 24 hours of operation last year. Bio-ethicists think it promotes shallow values.

While many people think of governments in terms of wasteful bureaucracies and windbag politicians, recent events in Paris have reminded us that they are also places where life-and-death decisions are made. However the place where a human life stands the least chance of survival is, in fact, the very place where it should be most protected in a mother’s womb.

The concept of infinite value of a human life leads to a sense of cognitive dissonance in the light of the real world life has a finite value, just like anything else.

So what is the value of life? In theory, a year of human life is priceless. In reality, it’s worth $50,000.

May be we should be asking what is the value of existence rather than life.

Do you not see any value in anything you do or achieve? Are the pleasures in life are mere deceptions, stifling the terror of death?

The cosmic wave back ground of the big bang is an only a snap shot of the Universe that we have. Light takes one second to travel to the moon. One hour to Jupiter. So you can calculate the years to the beginning of the universe by light -13.7 million years ago but the question is where does the light come from and where does it go as infinity has no end.

To Jason Silva Again.

” Life exists in individual moments and it is up to us make sure that those moments are vast, interconnected and grand. A journey through time and space to the nuclear hub of creation. We all destined to make this journey back to the source of all that exists an endless voyage of discovery that begins at the very moment of mortal death.”

” To make a masterpiece out of life. One that we would live again and again for all eternity. This is what we should strive for. I love this idea, essentialising our lives, of italicising our experiences, of turning our story into thus story, of seeing the universe in the pacific and sort of align ourselves with the archetype of the Hero’s journey, of trying to see a departure from the ordinary in every single instant. A chance to learn something new, a chance to leverage obstacles and learn from them and met people along the way that can teach us something.”

“Transcend your own limitations, as Stephen Johnston says, “ the world is full of clues and you can read your way through it.” If you are able to turn your life into an art piece. If you are able to turn your narrative into a non-narrative, then you become that Hero; you become the God of your life. It is the archetype of every Film. It’s the Joseph Campbell Hero’s journey.”

 

How we compare the relative values of human lives—and why we’re able to do so at all, despite the frequently expressed sentiment that all lives have equal worth is governed by age that affects our assessment of a human life.

So if we can calculate the age of the Universe by cosmic waves is it logic to assume that there is different sizes of infinity like a Google Plex that can not be written down.

 

 

The last organ to die, is the brain. At the moment of death, a person recalls one’s entire life in a span of a few seconds. Most common memories include a feeling of detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of an overwhelming light.

Life principle” of one’s future existence, and the nature of these thoughts will depend upon the predominant character during the person’s life.

Have we  just answered one of the greatest questions in the history of mankind.

 

 

Far from it.

Scientology actually sign a billion year contract with the church leadership for membership of their soul to the church.

The Christian point of view, if death is conceived as final, it denies the prospect of eternal life in paradise and the concept of divine reward and punishment. There is a linear concept of time; the world is created, we all act out God’s plan and eventually the world will end and we will live in eternity with God.

Hinduism and Buddhism believe that we have another existence in the next life.

Mormons believe in a three-tiered heaven

Most Moslems believe in a heaven or hell and a last judgement which will happen on the last day.

Voodooism from the Caribbean and Shintoism from Japan and certain Persian religions believe in the divine.

Jews mostly focus on this life on earth but there are elements of Orthodox Jews that believe in the “World to come!” Some Jews have argued that the dead will be resurrected after the Messiah comes. Jesus Christ is not the Messiah. They are waiting for the real Messiah.

For the religious person, meaning and life after death are therefore inextricably linked. Death is considered evil by those who think that it removes meaning from life.

Epicurus ethics is that we should be free of fears and anxieties and that one should not let death ruin your life.

Lucretius assumes a symmetry of past and future; not being born and being dead are equivalent. Religion and philosophy are attempts to give meaning to life, when we discover that there really is none.

We can only judge life from the internal perspective.

The meaning of life can only be found within life itself. The eternal hourglass of existence is eternally turned—and you with it. The life we currently lead is the most important of all. This in contrast with the Christian point of view in which this life is only a speck in eternity.

Human Beings are  marked by the capacity to transcend instinct and desire and to make conscious, ethical choices.

Life only has meaning specifically because there is an end.

Death is what forces people to live.  An unexamined life is not worth living’

Confused. Don’t be Life is the Bolus- bolus. The eternal recurrence of the same.

So are we  mentally dead.

The idea that “human life is sacred” is important because it functions as a foundation stone. It is the axiom on which rests the whole of our civilization respect for life is not just a religious value, it is a foundational value of all societies in which reasonable people would want to live especially in conditions of radical uncertainty where values and principles might compete with equal ‘weight’  

Every living human being lives by certain values. The positive values are Honesty, Compassion, Integrity, Forgiveness, Love, Knowledge, Discipline, Faith, and Leadership. The negative values like prejudice, hatred, greed, selfishness,

Broadly there are three types of human beings in existence in reference to human values

The first kind is the ones who think, what rightfully belongs to others, is other’s property, and even what belongs to them is also meant for others. An attitude of supreme sacrifice and renunciation, these human beings are closer to divinity than humanity.

The second kind is the one that thinks, what belongs to others is other’s property, but what belongs to them is their sole property and theirs by right. These classes of humans are more of human and less of divine, but they are of no harm to the society. they are very close to being perfect human beings.

The third type is the one which think that whatever exists on this planet belongs to them and they should get it by means fair or foul. These types of people are one with the least human values and they are a danger to the society.

The Problem with the disease of life is that there is no distinction between defending human life and promoting the dignity of the human person.

To achieve this goal, the priority plan should be free Education for all. Without education the struggle for equality will be an unending source of social strife unless man begins to view his fellows as brethren – human beings to whom he owes love and loyalty and for whom he is willing to sacrifice.

Without this society degenerates into opposing factions, each insisting on its own set of rights and the duty we owe each other as brothers and sisters is quickly forgotten as the Darwinian struggle reasserts itself.

The inevitable result of radical secularization and Islamization will be war, destruction and death on an unimaginable scale as each opposing group makes its claim on the measure of human worth.

Conclusion: 

The values the lives of people in rich nations up to fifteen times higher than those in poor countries. Since each stage of life has its own unique gift to give to humanity, we need to do whatever we can to support the even spread of opportunity to all by capping Greed ( SEE Previous Posts)

We ought to take the same attitude toward nurturing the human life cycle as we do toward saving the environment from global warming and industrial pollutants.

Life or existence is a gamble- here to day gone to morrow – A walking shadow that struts and frets its hour on the stage. That screams and cry’s and is heard no more.

LIVE AND LET LIVE. 

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I cannot imagine a single technology that only has upsides.

08 Thursday Jan 2015

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Sitting in front of the TV a  leading Comedy Actress looked into the camera and said ” I wish to thank all my new-found friends for watching. I love you.”

I thought to myself how sick. Where is all of this technology going to end up.

Making predictions about technology can be a tricky business.

Take for instance the Star Wars Beam me up Scottie.  Who to-day would have thought is possible. Not many. However the other day the quantum state (the direction it was spinning) of a light particle instantly traveled 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) across an optical fiber, becoming the farthest successful quantum teleportation feat yet.

So lets look at the current state and progress of different technologies used in fields such as 3D printing, big data and analytics, open intellectual property movement, massively online open courses, security cross-cutting issues, universal memory, 3D integrated circuits, photonics, cloud computing, computational biology and bioinformatics, device and nanotechnology, sustainability, high-performance computing, the Internet of Things, life sciences, machine learning and intelligent systems, natural user interfaces, networking and inter-connectivity, quantum computing, software-defined networks, multicore, and robotics for medical care.

The drawbacks and Pluses of technologies.

Security Cross-Cutting Issues.

The growth of large data repositories and emergence of data analytics have combined with intrusions by bad actors, governments, and corporations to open a Pandora’s box of issues. How can we balance security and privacy in this environment?

Open Intellectual Property Movement.

From open source software and standards to open-access publishing, the open IP movement is upon us.

Sustainability.

Can electronic cars, LED lighting, new types of batteries and chips, and increasing use of renewables combat rising energy use and an explosion in the uptake of computing?

Massively Online Open Courses.
MOOCs have the potential to transform the higher-education landscape, siphoning students from traditional universities and altering faculty and student roles. How significant will their impact be?

Quantum Computing.
Constrained only by the laws of physics, quantum computing will potential extend Moore’s Law into the next decade. As commercial quantum computing comes within reach, new breakthroughs are occurring at an accelerating pace.

Device and Nanotechnology.
It is clear that MEMS devices, nanoparticles, and their use in applications are here to stay. Nanotechnology has already been useful in manufacturing sunscreen, tires, and medical devices that can be swallowed.

3D Integrated Circuits.
The transition from printed circuit boards to 3D-ICs is already underway in the mobile arena, and will eventually spread across the entire spectrum of IT products

.Universal Memory.
Universal memory replacements for DRAM will cause a tectonic shift in architectures and software.

Multicore.
By 2022, multicore will be everywhere, from wearable systems and smartphones to cameras, games, automobiles, cloud servers, and exa-scale supercomputers.

Photonics.
Silicon photonics will be a fundamental technology to address the bandwidth, latency, and energy challenges in the fabric of high-end systems.

Networking and Interconnectivity.
Developments at all levels of the network stack will continue to drive research and the Internet economy.

Software-defined Networks.
OpenFlow and SDN will make networks more secure, transparent, flexible, and functional.

High-performance Computing.
While some governments are focused on reaching exascale, some researchers are intent on moving HPC to the cloud.

Cloud Computing.
By 2022, cloud will be more entrenched and more computing workloads run on the cloud.

The Internet of Things.
From clothes that monitor our movements to smart homes and cities, the Internet of Things knows no bounds, except for our concerns about ensuring privacy amid such convenience.

Natural User Interfaces.
The long-held dreams of computers that can interface with us through touch, gesture, and speech are finally coming true, with more radical interfaces on the horizon.

3D Printing.
3D printing promises a revolution in fabrication, with many opportunities to produce designs that would have been prohibitively expensive.

Big Data and Analytics.
The growing availability of data and demand for its insights holds great potential to improve many data-driven decisions.

Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems.
Machine learning plays an increasingly important role in our lives, whether it’s ranking search results, recommending products, or building better models of the environment.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Unlocking information in pictures and videos has had a major impact on consumers and more significant advances are in the pipeline.

Life Sciences.
Technology has been pivotal in improving human and animal health and addressing threats to the environment.

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Vast amounts of data are enabling the improvement of human health and unraveling of the mysteries of life.

Medical Robotics.
From autonomous delivery of hospital supplies to telemedicine and advanced prostheses, medical robotics has led to many life-saving innovation

Global Internet traffic has increased five fold over the past five years, and will increase threefold over the next five years. Overall, Internet traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent from now to 2018.  Apple is thought to have sold some 38.2 million iPhones in the third quarter of 2014.

For me the big questions is: Will the merger of devices that augment the brain and physical capabilities generate a new species, or create an even larger digital divide among humans. 

Will we have supercomputers, which draw megawatts, as powerful and efficient as the 30-watt human brain?  What changes could such processors bring?”

It predicts that more than 23 million smart wristbands alone will be sold.

Wearables are expected to include contact lenses with sensors that measure glucose levels in people with diabetes and electronic “tattoos” that monitor how well a wound is healing.  Wearable technology includes smart wristbands and pedometers to measure things such as a person’s daily steps, calories burned, and how many times they wake during the night. There’s even a wearable for maintaining good posture.

IN FIVE YEARS, I DON’T THINK THERE WILL BE A REASON TO HAVE A TABLET ANYMORE… Based on each patient’s genome, a simple pill will no longer be a product but a service that involves remote monitoring, essential if you’re the first to take that pill. What will this mean for medical research when it comes to designing mass clinical trials. Who is going to be able afford Health Care when it is in the hands Profit. 

Manufacturing will become more decentralized, with robots communicating with one another remotely, or whether robots will be used in the home to produce small custom parts. a mix of locally and centrally produced energy sources could radically change the economics of the industry.

Vehicle technology will have to have mind-controlled games to keep us occupied while we travel. Will these be created by cellphones or a patchwork of independently deployed networks like the AA, making travel its self a selling exercise.

There is one thing that is going to happen for certain. Those outside the technologies are going to become poorer, more extreme, and live longer.

If we are to manage all this Change we the one with SmartPhones and I Pads must demand that any life changing Technology should be available and accessible to all, especially Education if we are to avoid being ruled by the ignorant. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Smartphone. What kind of culture is it creating?

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Just how smart is your smartphone?

Why we expect more from technology and less from each other is down to the Smartphone.    

All of us have a device in our pockets that is a very potent.

In the pre-smartphone era we accessed the internet roughly five times per day, in longer chunks. Today, with smartphones, we’re accessing it 27 times a day. The average of text messages a 13-17 year old teenage girl sends and receives every month is 4000.  That’s one every six minutes that she’s awake. Boys aren’t much better at 3000.

When it comes to Smart there are many question yet to be answered.

Are they going to have a negative or positive effect on Society?

What are they doing to people’s interpersonal skills? 

Gone are the days of sitting together at a table and asking the simple question of ‘how was your day?

Are they addictive.?

The power of the pause is gone.

Constantly being bombarded with new information you pull our your phone because being unstimulated makes you feel anxious. Waiting time in a line at the bank? Used to be a gap. Now it’s an opportunity to send an email.

Are they eroding people’s ability to write sentences that communicate real meaning and inhibit the art of dialogue?

They are allowing people to communicate without ever seeing each other or hearing a voice, and this has a huge impact in that much communication is done non verbally or in inflection and tone of voice. Creating a generation that has no clue how to read any of these cues.

Are they inhibiting real human connection when we prioritize our phones over the people right in front of us.

Are they creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. We’ve got a crisis of attention and recognizing the value of gap time.

Are they creating an illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

At the most basic level, they are dispensing with manners. At the heart of manners is a consideration of others.

Are they a lifestyle device?  – they put information at our fingertips that no one could have ever dreamed of even 30 years ago.

Are they becoming the Jury before Trial through the use of social networking.

They have done more for the third world than all the Foreign Aid.

Interconnecting people/ market prices while cutting out the middle man. Reducing Corruption.

They will replace Money and destroy many world language.

They will do away with the Ballot box.

Nowadays, the battle for democracy is fought less with bayonets and
weapons, but instead with mobile phones. We’ve entered an age of non-linear dynamics when it comes to campaign imagery. Put something out there and you’ve really very little idea of what will be made of it.

They reduce Corruption.

Here is a few things it should be doing;

They could be used as  global early-warning system for infectious diseases that links the millions of symptoms that are self-reported on the web each day to mobile phone connected tests, in real-time and with geographically-linked information.

They could be used for publicly highlighting and altering the purpose of lifestyle technologies to focus on alternative aims?

Can our technology actually help us slow down and see each other as opposed to only transporting us and our attention away from each other?

The accelerating penetration of mobile devices across demographics is a huge opportunity for civic engagement. Advocates of any cause can now use their phones to take social action to support a candidate or policy in just a few taps or by simply sending a text message, or by clicking a link in an email.

Photos and videos filmed by phone, text messages with “breaking news” and the direct exchange of this information is changing and expanding society’s opinions. For example: To send hundreds of communications to their legislators to expand a scholarship program or to pressurize the United Nations to pass a peoples resolution to Cap Greed ( See Previous posts) The pressure from the hundreds of emails, calls, and tweets they received will translated to bipartisan approval.

The United States, along with Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, and South Korea have greater than 100 percent wireless penetration. These countries have more iPhones, Androids, and tablets than people. Two thirds of these cellphone owners use their mobile phones to go online.

China has an estimated 519.7 million smartphone users followed by the US at 165.3 million, India (123.3 million), Japan (50.8 million) and Russia (49 million), India will exceed 200 million smartphone users, topping the US as the world’s second largest smartphone market by 2016.

The use of texting and Facebook and Twitter and other sites as a form of communication is in its infancy.

Facebook, Twitter, U Tube are being used by political parties, candidates and their campaign managers to woo the young. Why not the other way around. They are being used to turn employees into remote employee.

They are changing the humongous dance of democracy. The Arab Spring. The Forthcoming UK General Election. The battle of the ballot is being waged in cyber space and through an increasingly powerful social media.

Forget advertisement campaigns through television and print media. Forget car rallies, public meetings, hoardings, banners, corner meetings, ‘padyatras’ (on-foot marches) and door-to-door campaigns.

Democratic elections are widely recognized as a foundation of legitimate government. By allowing citizens to choose the manner in which they are governed, elections form the starting point for all other democratic institutions and practices. Genuine democracy, however, requires substantially more. In
addition to elections, democracy requires constitutional limits on governmental power, guarantees of basic rights, tolerance of religious or ethnic minorities, and representation of diverse viewpoints, among other things.

To build authentic democracy, societies must foster a democratic culture and rule of law that govern behavior between elections and constrain those who might be tempted to undermine election processes but you would be a fool not to make your social advocacy campaigns mobile-ready.

There you have it. I could go on but my Phone has gone Bing.

We now have the curved Smartphone so god know what is around the bend. 

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Technological advances are altering the nature and the expectation of life.

04 Sunday Jan 2015

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All the festivities of Christmas and the New year are over.

It’s the start of another year and I am sure like me there are many of you afraid to ask ” Am I going to make it to the End of the Year.

The answer I hope is Yes.

We all know that new racial tensions are rising and finding expression in violence.

However the Deserts of Technology are just being created.

Some of us will lose our jobs, other will find new jobs but you can rest assured in this part of the world that technology will become more and more pervasive and that you are slap bang in the middle of incredible change, with unprecedented breaches in personal data leading this charge. 

Now all of this has happened before and the nature of man has not changed nor will it change.

Why?

Because no matter what technology we invent Greed has an eye on it.

Because as before we are not ready for the changes to come.

Because we are unwilling to except that the smart machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT and most of us have no concept of the disruption it will be causing in Industry after Industry.

The cost of production is becoming less than the cost of human labor.

So my advice is to wake up if you have not already done so.

The advent of dump down intelligence ( The game Angry Birds was downloaded over a million times in the first 24 hours it was available on Android devices. Seven months later the game had been downloaded more than 200 million times.) is on us and soon it will be everywhere.  Your prosperity or happiness you can rest assured will be a long way down the list of things to be achieved in the Capitalistic World of 2015.

The concept of peace is easy to grasp; that of international security is more complex even if the revolution in communications has united the world in awareness, in aspiration and in greater solidarity against injustice.  We are all being turned into non sustainable commodities.

If you don’t believe me answer a few of the following:

What will the Chinese Economy do when it is replaced by 3 -D Printing?

( The growth of the 3-D printing market is to increase at a compound rate of 23 percent—to $8.4 billion—by 2020, with expansion into areas such as architecture, medical products and jewelry design. Physical and online retailers are expected to market 3-D printing technology, undoubtedly one of the most exciting topics of discussion for technology enthusiasts in the coming year, and one that will eventually result in more innovative and productive outcomes.)

The office robotics market is growing seven times faster than the market for manufacturing robots.  Not long now before the remote worker population will include some 43 percent of all U.S.

What will the world of Finance do when it is radical changed and replaced by Crowdfunding? (The recently announced acquisition of the venerable New York Stock Exchange by the upstart Intercontinental Exchange. Shows that the residual value of the NYSE would appear to be largely in its brand.)

What will our Health Organisation do when we are all wearing attachable Health Monitoring sensors that will monitor our health feeding its data back to AI -based physicians who will understand your genomics sequence data. (We wont need doctors for day-to-day medical advice nor surgeons as all basic operations will be performed by Robotic Surgeons perhaps owned by GOOGLE or some other I Cloud based operator.)

What will our Energy companies do when we reach Grid parity i.e. When it becomes cheaper to produce your own energy than it is to buy from the grid.

What will our communication companies do when all communications will be done thorough free with WiFi networks. (Long distant calls are all ready dead with Skype.)

What will our Political leaders do when power rests with Social Media, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Big Data.

At present, mobile devices outnumber the total population of the planet, which indicates that in the near future every device having an IP address will have the capability to connect with others and be controlled from other devices through internet enabling firms to quickly and cost effectively realize more value from structured and unstructured information.

The Internet of Things (IoT) will generate revenue exceeding $300 billion worldwide by 2020, with some 26 billion devices connected to the IoT.

As modern devices like mobiles, cameras, wearable gadgets, sensors, and cloud based services, social networking etc use and produce data that can be translated into information for its users, this also calls for provisioning for storage of petabytes and terabytes of data in a secured and a usable format to be able to turn it into meaningful insights. (2014 has been a wake up call for those outside the world of cyber security.)

As technology gains its presence in almost every aspect of human life, it will be crucial for nearly every application to include analytic’s to filter out the colossal amounts of information, known as big data, generated by daily activities and engagement with technology, web and social media, reaping its benefits.

Just look at Twitter today the company boasts more than 200 million active users and half a billion tweets a day. It is destabilized everything from the news and information ecosystem to unpopular national governments.

2015 it will present some of the greatest challenges and threats to advancing technology. In a age where Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, internet fads (or “memes”) can infect the whole world in a matter of days our World Organisations are becoming obsolete.

The numbers are staggering: Among the billions of hours of videos that are now available over the Web, an estimated 100 million users around the world watch at least one online video every day.

Where does all of this leave us?

If you asked me the truth is, we don’t know, don’t have any idea. we don’t know when we started doing many of the things we’ve done. we don’t know what we are doing right now or how or present actions will affect the future. what we do know is that there is only one planet to do it on and on it one species of being capable of making a considered difference.

We have arrived at this position in a stunningly short time, and we are really at the beginning of it all.

With the merging of the real and virtual worlds the robotics industry will increase at a rate of more than 20 percent in next five years with advanced algorithms that will allow systems to understand their environment, learn for themselves, and act autonomously,

But Technology has a blind spot.

Our identities as humans are each and every day being eroded. Progress is also bringing new risks for stability: ecological damage, disruption of family and community life, with greater intrusion into the lives and rights of individuals.

With the merging of the real and virtual worlds the robotics industry will increase at a rate of more than 20 percent in next five years with advanced algorithms that will allow systems to understand their environment, learn for themselves, and act autonomously.

The accepted notions on how to eradicate poverty is being Challenged by the rapid transformation of Financial trading from physical to electronic,

If we are not to drive the world into unbridled Inequality we need to for once in its history Cap Greed ( see previous Posts) and stop Privatization for the sake of profit. 

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