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Technology is making us conscious of the need for a new society.

20 Tuesday Jan 2015

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In my last post I said that “Technology is making us conscious of the need for a new society.” It was a thought without an explanation.Illustration

It seems pretty obvious to most observers that our social networks have changed in the past few decades thanks to technology. The widespread use of cell phones, the increasing affordability of air travel, the rise of the Internet, and the advent of social media have changed the way we work, the way we live, and the way we make and maintain friendships, the way we view the world.

Our increasing on-line connectives is and has changed our perceptions of our social world for the better and to the determent of reality. The world of social networking sites is changing every day and is going to have more impact on the lives of generations to come. Because television and other popular forms of social media shape our perception of reality.

Nothing epitomises the anonymity of the Internet more than Anonymous.

Anonymity can be extremely dangerous, particularly to governments.

On the other hand sharing is all the rage these days.  Sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn allow people across the globe to broadcast every detail of their lives with the rest of the world through the mediums of text, audio, photo and video. Nowadays, the internet has simplified everything to the extent where you’re never more than a few minutes away from what you need.

However is the on-line world truly distinct from the off-line one?

Illegal activity such as drug distribution or human trafficking are handled through the ‘deep web’, areas of the internet not indexed by search engines. The worldwide group of self-proclaimed ‘hacktivists’ whose actions have had a number of significant impacts on corporations around the globe are another example.

General internet opinion is undoubtedly one of the most effective ways of establishing a consensus on something, with businesses or Governments ignoring public opinion doing so at their peril.

Technology hasn’t undermined our social relationships, although it has certainly affected them.

The prevalence of social media has, as a result, fundamentally changed the way we read and watch: we think about how we’ll share something, and whom we’ll share it with, as we consume it.

So what impact does Facebook have on today’s technologically advanced society?

Facebook’s effect on today’s society is not difficult to distinguish. … Facebook opens up other questions about today’s society, too. … in the age of digital communication when we can follow our state and national politicians on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But it remains nothing more than a medium for communication, and yet, it is so much more than that. At a glance, a user can learn everything from what gender a Facebook member is, to what religion they believe in, what school they attend, and their likes and dislikes, all with the click of a mouse.

In other words, the world of constant connectivity and media, as embodied by Facebook, is the social network’s worst enemy.

The time of mentally entertaining ourselves, is disappearing. We’ve forgotten how.” Whenever we have downtime, the Internet is an enticing, quick solution that immediately fills the gap. We get bored, look at Facebook or Twitter, and become more bored.

Getting rid of Facebook wouldn’t change the fact that our attention is, more and more frequently, forgetting the path to proper, fulfilling engagement. And in that sense, Facebook isn’t the problem. It’s the symptom.

The number of things we have pulling at our attention, the less we are able to meaningfully engage, and the more discontented we become. What Facebook does to our emotional state may be in simply looking at what people actually do when they’re on Facebook. What makes it complicated is that Facebook is for lots of different things—and different people use it for different subsets of those things.

Topics such as cyber bullying, addiction to cyber porn, and overall addiction to Internet games are something we need to study more.

The Internet may increase the overall frequency of communication but it is opening a new forum of disconnection to what really matters in our lives. The internet doesn’t just offer information in comprehensive fashion, it offers it instantaneously.

It is an ongoing record of human history – regardless of how much it continues to grow, individuals will always be able to access some obscure story from the earlier nineties, for instance, ensuring that almost anything we create today will never be lost to future generations.

Sites that mix professional and public criticism together, such as Rotten Tomatoes or Meta Critic, are now regarded as highly important by the likes of film and game manufacturers, as negative reception spreads more quickly than ever and sales are impacted as a result.

Crowd sourcing is allowing projects to source investment, interest and possible custom from a huge user base.

E Bay is providing a medium for consumers to make exchanges with other consumers, allowing people to sell their unwanted goods rather than throwing them away.

YouTube, Sound Cloud or U stream, is used to distribute either pre-recorded or live material.

Trip Advisor, where everything from restaurants to hotels are looked at in meticulous detail.

Netflix and catch-up services. Tailored marketing, literature, games, films and television have outgrown the need for a costly physical medium such as a book or disc, and are accessible in an instant on the likes of e-book readers.

From car-sharing and house-hunting to dating and charitable donation sourcing, somebody somewhere seems to have come up with an online solution that makes things easier, and long may it stay that way.

What is lacking (for lack of a better word) is an Internet World Political Party.MapBoxOSM

A rallying point to bring the power of the Internet to address the Inequalities in our world.

To increases social trust and engagement—and even encourages political participation. It would impart a feelings of bonding with a general social capital increase that could be used to pressurize change for the good of us all.

We live our lives immersed in technology, surrounded by cell phones, computers, video games, digital music players and video cams.

The Internet of Things : ’The home of the future. Your own personal digital ‘nanny’ to control almost every element of your life through apps or a web browser.

People will not only make their entire home web-connect and use it for personal benefits they will also become addicted to their Digital Nanny. 

The Internet of things will become central to society than the internet as we know it today, its role will probably be reduced in the future.

Nonetheless, it’s definitely exciting to see what the future brings other than –                                                     “Liking.”

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We all know what the problem is – that is not what people do. People, have relatively no value. Why?

18 Sunday Jan 2015

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It is that Technology is making us conscious of the need for a new society.

The privatizing the world economy is capturing democracy.

My three Terrorist Candidates (see previous Posts) are doing just that by Electronic trading. Running complex computer algorithms on what another person doesn’t know” or “capitalizing on another persons misfortune, while we the great unwashed watch on in ignorance.

We all know the problems in the world but it doesn’t mean we have to accept the Status Quo, just because there is no clear solutions.

If we want a sustainable world I believe that focusing on equality of opportunity is much more likely to enhance our general well-being.

If you look at Poverty it is now a moving target. It’s relative, not absolute. No one is hungry simply because someone else is eating. But, someone is poor if someone else is rich.

Poverty is not the real problem. The lack of opportunities to escape it is.

Now you cannot have moral markets?

Economic freedom has a direct effect on civil peace and human rights, economic freedom—the proxy used for a market-friendly economic environment—promotes peace and decent governance.

The argument is that fragile societies cannot handle the competitive, conflictual situations bred by democracy and free markets.

Capitalist reduction of people’s labour-power or their bodies to commodity status now extends also to their minds and their leisure time, ensuring a proletarianisation of intellectual labour and the commercialisation of all self-cultivation

What can government do to increase prosperity?” Socialism (including communism) is a proven failure at wealth creation. most of the wealth creation in the 20th century derived from technological advances by the militaries of a few countries They all assume that everyone wants to work together for the greater good. And yes, people will say that is what they want.  They act in their own self-interest.

In capitalism that which is rare has value, and people are not rare.

This planet is capable of providing the basic needs of every human on it and more, so NOT making available those resources to everyone is a choice made by those who “own” those resources. Who is going to pay for it?”. The answer is everyone.

While the Poor of our societies do not even have the chance to satisfy their basic needs.

The fundamental problem with global action is that the masses don’t care, enough.

It seems true that we need to challenge ourselves to go beyond our “comfort zone”, It is the level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.” It is time to empower the likes of the U.N.

Poverty can never be ended by forcing people to give to the poor.

We must all start with our mind-set especially on the accumulation of wealth.

We all know that there is no Government, no Political System, no Religious beliefs, no World Organisation, no Technologist invention, on Education, War, or Two pounds a month that is going to make any lasting difference.

This is why we must come together to redistribute Wealth and where better to start than with  the Three Terrorist that are plundering the world and raping us all.

I feel we will see a shift of people’s perspectives on what poverty really is in a radical way.

Just imagine what a 0.05% World Aid Commission on our Three Candidates could do.

High Frequency Trading.

Electronic Foreign Exchange Trading.

and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

Turning from the impersonal machine to the living but crafted social organism of interlinked personal relations in connected continuity with the organism of created nature is not merely a necessity of justice, but also of future world peace.

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the imposition of neoliberal policies by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that led to conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s (

 

 

we do not readily treat people as commodities, people-trafficking is on the rise

 

 

Capitalism, with all its faults, works because it assumes people will act in their own self-interest.

 

…By educating our generations, present, and future ones to be individuals to follow their dreams and have self worth and not allowing them to limit themselves on obtaining those dreams solely on their financial standings and the thought of a linear path to money,

Capitalism creates poverty because someone has to make less so others can make more.

Eradicating poverty assumes equally distributed ambition to escape poverty. on providing free education

 

Here are the three terrorists you will never see. Candidate No 3

17 Saturday Jan 2015

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This Candidate is by far the most destructive in so far that it concerns you and I and not just Profit for Profit sake.

We could call it : The resource curse.

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) are the most courted investors in the world.

In a way, an SWF can be a fund for future generations, aiming to create a wealth reserve for a future time where commodity revenues dwindle, either because reserves run out, or prices go down.

Owned or controlled by States, albeit separate from central banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) draw their revenue from either natural resources or from trade surpluses.

With the massive accumulation of foreign reserves, these institutions have moved away from a passive approach to asset management to a more long-term proactive investment strategy, embodying a form of State capitalism.

They have become absolutely massive in size in the not-too distant future will have powerful implications for the financial markets.

As I have discussed in the past, I am increasingly concerned about Capitalist financial globalization and the Inequality it is creating in the World.  (See previous posts)

You need look no further to explain the present problems in the World.  The Gap between the Haves and Have not’s. 

My calculations show that the total size of the SWFs will reach US$12 trillion by the end of 2015, and surpass the size of the world’s total official reserves within five years.

With the drop in Oil revenues the SWFs of tomorrow of Oil rich countries are likely to be more interested in strategic companies that possess higher-tech capabilities or techniques.  Higher-tech companies and even foreign banks will be primary targets of these funds.

By privatizing the limited resources that are left in the world they are turning us all in to commodities.

As the world economy slows their investments into emerging markets remain all but unnoticed to the Joe public.

They are now investing a wide range of investment objectives, along with continually evolving time horizons and risk appetites.  Some SWFs have become increasingly active in corporate acquisitions and other strategic transactions. Though many of these funds prefer to invest in debt or non-controlling equity positions, a small but growing number are seeking substantial minority and controlling equity stakes.

ADIA, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign-wealth fund, with assets of $773 billion, now employs 1,500 people. South Korea’s National Pension Service ($430 billion) will boost its investment team by 60 people this year. Canada’s Pension Plan Investment Board recently opened a fourth international office, in São Paulo, to enhance its ability to source and manage complex, sizable investment opportunities.

We should be urging Government policymakers in countries where companies have been targeted for investment to balance the perceived threats of SWFs against their potential benefits, particularly their ability to provide a stabilizing source of global liquidity in the current economic environment.

There rising prominence and lack of transparency of SWFs should be raising concerns among governments and other market participants. For this reason, companies intent on obtaining funding from or investing with SWFs should be scrutinized particularly if a transaction is perceived to involve a country’s strategic or security interests.

Recently they have become major participants in the financial institutions and alternative investment industries, with several high-profile investments in well-known private equity firms and financial services companies.

The next step is to ally with other like-minded investors.

Here are a few examples of what is going on.  

Sovereign wealth funds are flying under the radar again.

Seven of the 10 largest sovereign wealth funds are administered by authoritarian nations (China, Singapore and Saudi Arabia)

Not to mention those controlled by nations that give American strategists pause, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Libya, Iran, Azerbaijan, Venezuela and Turkmenistan.

Or the competing funds within its own very backyard

Alaska ($51.7 billion), Texas ($37.7 billion), New Mexico ($19.8 billion), Texas, again ($17.2 billion), Wyoming ($5.6 billion), Alabama ($2.5 billion), North Dakota ($2.2 billion) and Louisiana ($1.1 billion).

Nearer Home they are barely mentioned by Economic goo-roues or referred to by cash strapped Governments that are selling off their people’s countries assets.

Qatar Gaining Power in UK Through Financial Back Door.

Privatization is an emerging theme in the government’s plans for the public sector. The chancellor’s recent budget speech championed the sale of key public assets and relied heavily on foreign investment as a spur for growth.

David Cameron will clear the way for a multi billion-pound semi-privatisation of trunk roads and motorways as he announces plans to allow sovereign wealth funds from countries such as China to lease roads in England.

A Canadian pension fund, a British one and Kuwait’s sovereign-wealth fund last year bid (unsuccessfully) for Severn Trent, Britain’s second-largest publicly traded water company.

A Singaporean sovereign-wealth fund recently bought a significant share in RAC, a British car-breakdown service, outbidding private-equity firms such as Blackstone, CVC and Charterhouse.

Two of London’s most famous streets are now part-owned by Norway’s sovereign wealth fund after it paid £343m to snap up a share in an estate covering four acres of the capital’s West End.

The gallery-studded Cork Street are part of the Pollen Estate in which Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has bought a 57.8% stake.

The investment arm of the Qatari armed forces has bought the five-star Renaissance hotel in central Barcelona for €78.5m (£65m) Sovereign wealth funds put an extraordinary Eu 40 billion of investment into Spain between 2009 and 2014.

Britain’s £8.6bn crown estate should be turned into a sovereign wealth fund to rival government-backed investment funds that have sprung up across Europe, the Middle East and Asia in the last 20 years.

Opposition to Europe‘s austerity programmes intensified on Friday as a top official at China’s £300 bn sovereign wealth fund warned that the public are at “breaking point”David Simonds, London property sell off, 1 July, 2012

Heathrow is now part-owned by the Chinese state after the country’s sovereign wealth fund acquired a 10% stake in the UK’s largest airport.The deal means Heathrow will be more than 40% controlled by the Chinese, Qatari and Singaporean governments,

The £2bn Shard, all 1,016 feet of it, will be illuminated to show off the Qataris’ latest trophy in the capital. Already in their shopping basket are Canary Wharf, Harrods and One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive block of flats.

Gulf state of Qatar has added Shell to its growing roster of western investments by buying a holding in the company.

DUBAI—Qatar has replaced the head of its $300 billion sovereign-wealth fund with a member of the wealthy Gulf State’s royal family. Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohamed bin Saud Al-Thani will take the reins.

There is no reason that we the people should not include them in our United Nations Resolution to place a 0.05% World Aid Commission on all acquisitions they make in the world.

Like Electronic Foreign Exchange Trading and High Frequency Trading, Sovereign Wealth Funds contribute nothing to Society other than providing funds to make more profit.

If we are to have a world which is worth living out our lives in we must use Greed to provide a level playing field.

 

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Here are three terrorist you will never see. Candidate no 2

15 Thursday Jan 2015

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Don’t get me wrong I am not against Foreign Exchange per say its the repugnant Profit made by Electronic Platforms in Foreign Exchange Trading using Algorithmic trading in today’s biggest money market in the world.

Somewhere around 70% to 90% of all foreign exchange transactions are speculative in nature so I will not going to bore you with the in and out of FX Spot, FX Future & FX Option.

All you need to know is that almost all FOREX trades are executed on the internet by someone sitting at a computer with a high-speed connection.

The Forex market owes its existence to the need of banks to buy foreign currencies on behalf of their clients who need it for paying for imports, bring in export proceeds or for funding trade transactions including mergers and acquisitions.

Foreign Exchange or Forex or FX electronic trading now dominates a global decentralized market for the trading of currencies making it possible for small traders to participate in currency trading.

In a global market where traded is virtually around-the-clock money is sold and bought freely between buyers and sellers with over of $5.3 trillion per day in April 2013. 

The daily average volume of FOREX is: Almost 5 TRILLION Dollars Per Day!

The FOREX market is so huge and has so many global participants that no single individual nor entity… not even a central bank… can control the market for any significant period of time.

So What is Currency Trading?

Beginning since 1997 to date, more than a trillion dollars of foreign exchange activity has been taking place at Forex, day after day.

FX trading is basically a metaphoric handshake between two parties that trust each other. Unlike other financial markets, there is no commission or transaction fee in currency trading.

There is no broker who acts as an agent in the transaction. Trades are between principals; traders and Forex trading  firms, which are dealers and not brokers. The Forex trading firm gets its profit from the spread. The trading is done on margins over-the-counter and there is no clearing house through which trades are routed.

There is no regulatory body nor is there any mechanism for settlement of disputes. Trades are initiated and closed directly between buyers and sellers.

This may appear to be nothing more than the proverbial handshake and an ad-hoc arrangement to investors who are used to strictly regulated and structured trading in stock exchanges.

It is a game for big players who have experience and up-to-the-minute information. Currency speculators place their bets in dizzying amounts with a few clicks.

Recently Bankers were rigging the £3 to 5 trillion-a-day foreign exchange markets.  Five of world’s biggest banks are fined record £2 billion. RBS, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, UBS and Citibank fined in UK and U.S. Barclays will also be fined but they are still negotiating their punishment

Global banks agree to pay $4.3 billion for manipulating currency markets.

However this scandal involves regulators from multiple jurisdictions. The CFTC, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission from the US. The FCA from the UK and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority all work in conjunction. The scandal occurred during the worst part of the financial crisis of 2008.

The traditional market structure based on dealer-customer relationships has given way to a trading network topology where both banks and non-banks act as liquidity providers. This is effectively a form of “hot potato” trading where dealers are no longer necessarily at the center.

The growing participation of non-dealer financial institutions is being fueled by hedge funds, high-frequency trading managed and by professional asset management firms, captured under the two labels “institutional investors” (eg mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies) and “hedge funds”, specialise in algorithmic and high-frequency strategies in spot markets. and sovereign wealth funds.

Over the period 2007-13, algorithmic trading at EBS grew from 28% to 68% of volumes. HFT strategies can both exploit tiny, short-lived price discrepancies and provide liquidity at very high frequency benefiting from the bid-ask spread.

What we now have is a non-transparent market globalized money system that recognizes no geographic boundaries which is undermining the ability of each national government to control its money supply and influence the value of its money.

To me, it is not trading itself that is unethical. It is that the unfettered accumulation of capital for its own sake, without regard for the effects of consumption (in a practical, material sense, as well as from an environmental standpoint), and without any attention paid to using that capital for the betterment of us all. We all too often live without regard for others, and are encouraged to do so by a value system that prides the individual over the community. Transactions do not provide a good or service to anyone.

The rapid increase of international trade, in being the principal guarantee of the peace of the world, is the great permanent security for the uninterrupted progress of the ideas, the institutions, and the character of the human race is now a war waged by Commerce.

EVERY DAY WHILE MILLIONS LIVE IN POVERTY OF OPPORTUNITY while there are trillions in currency traded for Profit.

Literally all this takes only a few seconds. Wonderful is it not?

It’s now or Never.

What to stop us from placing a World Aid Commission of 0.05% on all Foreign Exchange Electronic transactions over $20,000.

Combined with its friend High Frequency Trading it could produce billions to benefit us all.  (See previous Posts)

You can bury your head in the sand. You can continue ignoring the warnings but if we are to have a peaceful world wealth made by these methods must be distribute.

What will the FX version look like in 3 years?

For sure like it and its friend HFT are  going to disappear into the cloud with a click of a mouse from your tablet or phone.  Mobile trading capability combined with bio-identification (fingerprint, IRIS, voice) is just around the corner with  Operational FX going live, automated and synchronized with the underlying stock or bond trade, —of the original securities trade, not hours or days later but in seconds.

One thing is clear:

Armed with next-generation technology, traders will have a deeper understanding of the markets and the ability to execute adaptive, finely tuned strategies to make profit.

In the future, traders in each and every asset class will manage their whole workflow in a single super system computer that makes fragmented information, manual error risk, and connectivity issues things of the past.

Cloud services will make connecting disparate legacy trading systems as simple as inserting a “smart controller” into your house’s electrical circuit box.

Will we be rich. Certainly not.

All this means that many governments end up with fewer policy options to control the level of employment and inflation at home, and even governments that retain substantial control of their monetary policy may be forced to set interest rates higher than desired in order to prevent the flight of capital out of their country.

In the absence of capital controls, this increases the magnitude of over borrowing and leaves the economy both more vulnerable to speculative attack and more exposed to the real economic consequences of such an attack.

If an investor can earn 8.5% interest on deposits in England, but can pay 1% interest for the use of money in Japan, then the investor would pay to borrow the Japanese yen in order to buy the British pound. Such trades take place all the time and in very large numbers.

Exchange rates float freely against one another, which means they are in constant fluctuation. Currency valuations are determined by the flows of currency in and out of a country. A high demand for a particular currency usually means that the value of that currency will increase.

FX is assimilating all of the amazing advances that have come up in consumer technology in recent years eroding the normal demand for a currency which is created by tourism, international trade, mergers and acquisitions, speculation, and the perception of safety in terms of geo-political risk. Replacing it with profit for old rope.

The oil price crash is now upending the global economy, with ramifications for every country in the world.

The world is full of potential surprises. Let us surprise them by lobbing the United nations to pass a peoples resolution placing a World Aid Commission of 0.05% on ALL Foreign Exchange Electronic transactions over $20,000.

 

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Here are three terrorist you will never see. Candidate no 1

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING:  (HFT)

HFT a growing cancer is now a major force in markets across the world:

Financial parasites that are only focused on making money, skimming off incalculable billions from pension and investment funds, damaging national economies in the process.

But does anyone in the world really care that the finance industry has found a new way to fleece the public.

HFT are plundering the world and robbing us all while literally having no value to society. 

As the world lurch towards a new technology-driven feudalism, defined by disparities in Wealth and Opportunity they are out of sight out of mind.

The question is how is it possible to inform the big audience that 70% of markets activities are controlled by machines that we will never comprehend?

The free market is based upon the notion that there is equity in price discovery.  Once you have lost that, it is not a free market, it is a controlled market.  Here is a market beyond human control, dominated by super-fast machines running complex computer algorithms that jostled and fight each other at the level of milliseconds, microseconds – and with no meaningful oversight.

Is it facetious to suggest that morality should have a significant impact on the world of trading?

First there’s no turning back on HFT because there are too many implicated interests and morality, it’s something we cannot make a machine understand, or at least not yet.

Computers are essentially calculators, so they don’t do what we want
them to do, in fact, they do what we ordered them to do. In the end, behind a massive smokescreen stocks acquisition there’s always a group of competitors who rule the machine in the best way to get the best incomes.

Nor is there anything ETHICAL? about HFT

They don’t understand if their actions will have influence on the environment which are far away of the price-screens of the parquet.

Some of the most formidable minds in the world were now employed in a technological arms race, a hidden war stalked by million-dollar predator algorithms that could swarm those of the larger, slower players – typically, pension and mutual funds – in the same way a shoal of piranhas might eat an ox, cutting them to shreds and pocketing the profits.

The algorithms at the heart of this world were run not by finance or programming people, but by “quants”: quantum physicists, climate scientists, theoretical mathematicians.

High-frequency traders are even battling for an edge on the trading communication links between London and New York. Remarkably, HFT firms are moving their server farms near to exchange computer to further increase trading speeds.

So What is High Frequency Trading?

High Frequency Trading (HFT) involves the execution of complicated, algorithmic-based trades by powerful computers.

They are capable of wiping trillions in value from Markets as in  the “Flash Crash” of May 2010, in which $1 trillion was wiped off the value of markets in the space of 10 minutes.

The objective of HFT is to take advantage of minute discrepancies in prices and trade on them quickly and in huge quantities. The trades are done at close to the speed of light.  The trades are executed without any human action except for initial programming. In most cases, the trades are executed before individual investors know the quotes of prices, or that the trades happened at all.  This tiny difference in speed enabled the owners of high-speed cables to charge banks and investment companies millions of dollars to gain an edge over their rivals without producing any social benefits whatsoever.

High-frequency traders are preying on investors, and exchanges and brokers were being paid to help them to do it.

For instance, a computer recognizes when one exchange quotes an ask price of one cent more than the quote on another exchange. This computer then trades in extraordinarily large volumes on this information, taking advantage of the arbitrage opportunity in a split second. They have nothing to do with value assessment or creation: the machines’ sole aim was to use speed to game the market.

HFT computers can influence the market for the trader’s own advantage.

Before individual and other investors who do not possess the same sophisticated technology realize, the one-cent spread between the two exchanges is erased and the stock price trades at the same level.

There are now entire hedge funds devoted to this strategy.

HFT accounted for 84% of market activity in the US and almost 60% in Europe.

They are non regulatory as the algos simply mutated.

SO WHERE DOES THIS LEAVES THE REST OF US.

One of the main areas of contention is who the victims of HFT are.

HERE IS AN EDUCATED GUESS. THE POOR. 

The reality is that HFT is unlikely to go away – as there’s not much incentive to do so. 

WE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO STOP HFT

BUT WE SURE CAN LOBBY OUR OUT OF DATE UNITED NATIONS WITH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, SMARTPHONES, E MAILS, TWITTERS, AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH –   TO PASS A PEOPLES RESOLUTION’S TO PLACE A 0.05% WORLD AID COMMISSIONS ON ALL HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING.   That’s a worthy goal, but it’s not an easy trick, and likely even harder to pull off.

The impact on the inequalities IN THE WORLD could be huge. (SEE PREVIOUS POSTINGS)

The next time you bid on E BAY remember that  Bid sniper’ software, is placing bids milliseconds before auctions ended.

Some HFT industry participants are now starting to look at using software and language design originally used in the graphics and gaming industry, so cross-overs between technology and finance that may have seemed far-fetched in the past may now actually begin emerging commercially. Robot Trading is around the corner.

High Frequency Trading (HFT) algorithm run every day in Google stock.

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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.

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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.

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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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