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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When we face our own mortality, accomplishment does not always equate to meaning.

29 Monday Dec 2014

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Here is your New Year Resolution’s.

My purpose in life is to create something of beauty and meaning that will change the world for the better. My life is made more meaningful by sharing my skills and resources to help marginalized and powerless people.

I’m better as a “do-er”.

What you most not do is to throw up our hands in despair and believe that you can do nothing.

So where to start.?  How about with my new year resolution.

” I really hope after reading this you’d get inspired to join a global war against Inequality.”

 We can change the moral landscape of our time. The global meltdown, the Euro zone crisis, and increased unemployment have all added to the rise in poverty around the world. It is obviously when people are desperate for work or food and are trying just to survive, they may agree to take risks that might make them vulnerable to being exploited.

Human capital takes many forms, including:

Terrorism.  • Labour exploitation, where victims suffer mental or physical abuse or threats. • Controlled or owned by their ’employer’, who may withhold pay and/or dehumanise. • Bought and sold as commodity, often in exchange for services or money. • Freedom of movement is restricted or victims are confined to their place.

One of the most important steps each and every one of us can take is to make sure we educate ourselves and inform others about how our actions can end modern-day slavery. The decisions and choices we make about the produce, clothes, and technology we buy have far-reaching impact on the lives of poor, vulnerable people across the world.

All of these and many other problems sets challenges for us all — for governments, for companies and for consumers.

 It is estimated that forced labor generates over $150 billion a year worldwide in illegal profits. Money made on the back of vulnerable people’s misery.

To put this amount into perspective, it is the same amount of money that the iPhone has generated in revenues since 2007! It’s more than the annual GDP of Rwanda, Iceland, Kenya, Jamaica and Croatia combined! The obscene amount of money generated by forced labor is one of the main reasons of why it’s so hard to eradicate.

It can be easy to fool ourselves into believing that slavery, while repugnant, has nothing to do with our own lives, that it has been either eradicated from all but the most remote places on Earth.

It’s not here a few examples

Thai fishing industry, a $7-billion business that provides seafood sold in major stores such as Walmart, Costco and Tesco across North America and Europe use forced labor on fishing boats and inhumane treatment of crew from neighboring countries like Cambodia and Myanmar.

There are 29.8 million people in the world waiting for a time when they no longer survive in slavery, but thrive in freedom. Slavery to exist today, in every country, 150 years after we thought it had been abolished.”

Europe is home to 1 in 8 trafficking victims.

India topped the Global Slavery Index 2013 with the highest number of enslaved people, estimated at 14 million, which is nearly half the total world-wide. The index indicates that India exhibits the “full spectrum” of the different forms of modern slavery.

The average U.S. citizen eats over 11 pounds of chocolate per year but many are unaware of the rampant practice of child slavery involved in more than 70 per cent of the world’s cocoa production.

In mines in eastern Congo, children work exhausting hours to extract minerals used in electronics industry.

Mauritania still has one of the highest rates of slavery in the world, with the U.S. Department of State estimating that up to 20% of the country’s population is enslaved.

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Knock, Knock, Who there? 2015

24 Wednesday Dec 2014

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Happy New Year to one and all.

As a species, we are social beings who live out our lives in the company of other humans. We organize ourselves into various kinds of social groupings, such as nomadic bands, villages, cities, and countries, in which we work, trade, play, reproduce, and interact in many other ways. Unlike other species, we combine socialization with deliberate changes in social behavior and organization over time.

Consequently, the patterns of human society differ from place to place and era to era and across cultures, making the social world a very complex and dynamic environment.

The ways in which people develop are shaped by social experience and circumstances within the context of their inherited genetic potential.

We are increasingly dependent on one another through international economic systems and shared environmental problems. The growing interdependence of world social, economic, and ecological systems makes it difficult to predict the consequences of social decisions. Changes anywhere in the world can have amplified effects elsewhere, with increased benefits to some people and increased costs to others.

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All year I have advocated that Greed is the curse of Capitalism. It is at the root cause of Inequality.

One hundred and six billion of us have being born since the dawn of the human species. Making the current population 6% of all the people who ever lived on the planet. ( 7,283,314749)  With 2.8 Billion of us living on less than two dollar a day, with over a billion not having access to healthy water, with 876 million of adults illiterate, with ½ a million murders a year, with 30,000 children under 5 die every day from avoidable diseases it’s no wonder we have terrorists.

Currently we have 20% of the global population with 90% of the wealth.

Christmas is over and all the words of peace to mankind have been sung once more, but the canvas of the World remains weeping. It is time to return dignity to the world. Which can only be achieved by capping greed to create a perpetual fund. ( see previous postings)

Here is the current painting.

A round revolving ball in the vastness of space teaming with life, with 1.35 billion of us spending 20 minutes each day of Facebook each month. The new slavery of our age leading us to the globalization of indifference, born out of ego selfishness, removing our sense of compassion and dignity.

A world on which we have 26 countries in a state of conflict , with 170 Militias, Guerrillas, Separatist, Anarchic, are all represented by a world of 31% Christians, 23% Muslims, 15% Hindus, 7% Buddhists, 6% Folk religionists, 1% Others and 0,02% Jews.

A Disposable world full of Ego Centrism in which man was probably happiest when he was swinging from tree to tree.

A world with 20/30 million in modern-day slavery ( A slave in 1850 in America cost the equivalent of $40,000 in to days money, to-day an average of $90.)

A world that has this much fresh water.  

Fresh groundwater and surface-water make up the bubble over Kentucky, which is about 252 miles in diameter. The sphere over Georgia reresents fresh-water lakes and rivers (about 34.9 miles in diameter).

This much gold. 171.300 tons.

Gold piled up on Wimbledon's centre court

Just enough oil to last the world 53.3 years at the current production rates.

Just enough gas in proven reserves to meet 58.6 years of global production at the end of 2010.

That will run out of phosphorus in 50 to 100 years unless new reserves of the element are found.

That has enough coal to meet 188 years of global production.

A world that when you take a deep breath the chances are, the air filling your lungs is far from pure. Even if you live in a clean, ecologically conscious area, you may be inhaling pollutants from faraway, less-pristine locales. Your hometown air may contain microscopic particles of mercury-coated coal dust from China, diesel from Europe, ozone from Los Angeles, or carbon monoxide from India—or possibly a cocktail of all of the above.

Where Scandium and terbium are just two of the 17 rare earth minerals that are used in everything from the powerful magnets in wind turbines to the electronic circuits in smartphones. The elements are not as rare as their name suggests but currently 97% of the world’s supply comes from China and they can restrict supplies at will. Exact reserves are not known.

Where we are told by the Artists not to don’t worry,( the Artists being our World Leaders places in power by us the people with black x’s in square boxes) because the Economy and World Trade, is turning people into merchandise for trade while depriving its victims of all dignity.

Where there is 75 trillion dollars in circulation. A billion Cars. With roughly 10/11 million standing soldiers between 10 countries.  While 86%-91% of the 8.7 million(± 1.3 million) species that we share the world with still await description before we are all swimming.
Photo: Woman wading through flooded Venice plaza

Where Scientific research indicates sea levels worldwide have been rising at a rate of 0.14 inches (3.5 millimeters) per year since the early 1990s.  The trend, linked to global warming, puts thousands of coastal cities, like Venice, Italy, (seen here during a historic flood in 2008), and even whole islands at risk of being claimed by the ocean.

A world where we now need more than ever to apply different brush strokes if the painting for 2015 is to have any chance of been appreciated in the future.

Day after day I follow news reports of the enormous suffering endured by many people in the Middle East. It is not enough to contain wars, or international terrorism, which displays deep disdain for human life and indiscriminately reaps innocent victims we must stop the bankrolling of these conflicts by the unchecked traffic in weapons.

There seem little point to continue to catalog the illnesses that are plaguing the world. You could continue to list all the shortcomings till the end of the earth.

Communications is about informing people – not collecting “hits.” In order to progress towards the future we need the past. However in doing so we need to move away from the present World model that is more prone to make demands than to serve humanity. 

We all know that the human family, must be grounded on respect, cooperation, solidarity and compassion. That it must be built on justice, socio-economic development, freedom, respect for fundamental human rights, and the participation of all in public affairs and the building of trust between people’s.

None of our present political systems are coming up to the mark ( Democracy, Republic , Monarchy, Communism , Dictatorship) because of Greed.

If we are to break out of the structures that hold us back from a recognition, we must share and share a like. Update our out of date World Organisations that are unable to function due to lack of funds, United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, the World Health Organisation,that are run by our of date Government Systems (see post: Is Democracies outdated and Disfunctional)

If we are to reduce the Inequalities of the future a Global ethic is needed.

We all deserve a peaceful world order based on unity of purpose. Their dignity is your dignity.

As Pope said. ” It (the earth) is the greatest resource which God has given us and is at our disposal not to be disfigured, exploited, and degraded, but so that, in the enjoyment of its boundless beauty, we can live in this world with dignity.”

We need profound roots, sustainability, not a disposable society, which can only be achieved if we use the power of social media to effect change (see previous posts)

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So there you have it a master piece deserving of to be hung in the Louvre, beside the Mona Lisa.

If your have by any chance read this post, I am not interested in receiving your like tick. I am Interested in any suggestions as to how we might go about setting up a grass roots Organisation to apply pressurize where needed by using the power of Social Media ( Not a Petition site.) more a name and shame site.    Happy New Year.

 

 

Painting the snowflakes red: The insanity of capitalism in 500 words

24 Wednesday Dec 2014

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Good on you honeythatsok. Happy Xmas. The battle will be long. Unfortunately there is only one way to make Capitalism contribute and that is to cap it cold heart as I suggest.

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Alice in Wonderland strikes again. Over the past 65 years, millions of children have marveled at the absurdity of the Red Queen making her minions paint the white roses red, or lose their heads. Unfortunately, the same children grew up and became mindless consumers of plastic junk, not giving a second thought as to who made their peculiar trinkets.

But this Christmas, a stunning article by Oliver Wainwright at The Guardian made it impossible to ignore. No art director in the world could come up with more unforgettable images of Santa’s workshop from hell. Wainwright writes: “Wai is 19. Together with his father, he works long days in the red-splattered lair, taking polystyrene snowflakes, dipping them in a bath of glue, then putting them in a powder-coating machine until they turn red – and making 5,000 of the things every day. In the process, the two of them end up…

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Why put up with a world you would be ashamed of to show to anyone.

19 Friday Dec 2014

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In a few days time if you are lucky you will be celebrating Christmas oblivious to the world you live in.  May the Blessings of the season be on you as it not intention to spoil your Christmas by reminding you that we live in a world where inequality is deeply entrenched and widely supported, and where most efforts seem to contribute to the efficient management of inequality.

The path of economic development that defines early 21st–century globalization is associated with growing inequalities of wealth and power within and between states and it is a path toward greater and greater inequality.

In other words, the current direction of globalization is increasing the economic and social injustice being done to the vast majority of the human family today.

Billions of people trapped in poverty worldwide feel the injustice intensely as they glimpse the lifestyles of the rich and famous of the world.

And you ask why is Terrorism growing, and what can be done about it?

In fact, the question, “what causes terrorism?” is not quite the right question to be asking, because we will never be able to answer it.

Since the 1960s a plethora of studies have been published on the topic. However, despite the proliferation of academic studies and political discussions calling for a closer look at the root causes, there has been no real improvement in understanding.

Kofi Annan said it best – “[w]e should not pretend that […] the decision to resort
to terrorism is unrelated to the political, social and economic situation in which
people find themselves.

Many people around the world perceive an unjust social and economic order imposed on them by forces that are, at best, indifferent to their needs. But we would be mistaken if we assume, equally, that terrorists are mere products of their environment.

Now don’t get me wrong I am not highlighting or justifying terrorism in all its barbaric actions. I am interest in removing it from the face of the Globe and how it might be possible to achieve steps in the right direction.

It is by no means a new phenomenon and “today society faces not one terrorism but many terrorism.

”Terrorism is considered one of the gravest dangers to our society, particularly because the highly publicized events of 9/11 demonstrated the consequences of terrorist acts.

Extremist ideologies of a secular or religious nature are at least-an intermediate cause of terrorism, serve to dehumanize the enemy and justify atrocities.

It may be true that religious fanaticism creates conditions that are favorable for terrorism. But we know that religious zealotry does not ’cause’ terrorism because there are many religious fanatics who do not choose terrorism or any form of violence. Although many people today believe that religious fanaticism “causes” terrorism, it isn’t true. We cannot say that the presence of one factor provokes terrorism in the same way that we can say with scientific certainty that certain toxins cause diseases.

Terrorism is a complex phenomenon; it is a specific kind of political violence committed by people who do not have legitimate army at their disposal. People that have become violent criminals, or nut cases using political arguments to justify their pathological need to be violent. A recent example in Australia where a certified Iranian nutter was classified as a terrorist by the world media, when in fact he was a deranged dangerous criminal.

Political terrorists are driven to commit acts of violence as a consequence of psychological forces, and that their psycho-logic is constructed to rationalize acts they are psychologically compelled to commit” terrorists live in the
divinely decreed future, a point in time where the ultimate realization of their
political destiny can be attained. This is the reason that we will never be able to eradicated it completely.

So what can be done?

Lessons from the past will provide a manual for handling the present challenges appears to be unrealistic with “knee-jerk” responses.

We all know the Illegitimate or corrupt governments frequently give rise to Terrorism. Repression by foreign occupation, unwillingness by the state to integrate dissident groups ethnic minority discriminated against by the majority lack of opportunity for political participation revenge or action, may trigger terrorist action.

However I believe that a large part of the real causes can be found in other quarters.

For instance;  Free media helps perpetuate terrorism in a society; without publicity, the actions of terrorist groups may ineffective and counterproductive in achieving their end goals. a free press will almost always assure maximum returns for terrorism and in turn will overestimate the relationship between democracy and terrorist activities. They should stop labeling ever violent act as terrorist. Remove the description and revert to naming the group.

If we can remove black money from this world and reduce poverty, terrorism disappears.

Terrorists can do nothing without money. All their purchases and transactions are illegal. For illegal purchases, they need to pay more than market price. Terrorists cannot operate without support from local people who are purchased. Poor people are the low-cost manpower for terrorist groups.

Education as the key to eradicate terrorism.

The United Nations should pass a resolution that all Companies commercial or otherwise quoted on the stock exchanges of the world  (with a value of £1 million and over) must provide two free Apprentices places at the start of their financial year.

The United Nations should get all the nations that it represent to agreed to a free United Nations Youth Touring Visa. To enable all University Graduates in the world to travel for two years.

And last put not lest.

The United Nations should pass a people’s of the world resolution’s to Cap Greed. Creating a perpetual source of funds so it does not have to beg. ( see previous posts: 0.05% World Aid commission)

The United Nation could open an App Called The UN Role of Shame. In which it could track and name countries/ organisations that commit human abuse, sell arms, don,t pay their subscription. make promises of Aid and don’t deliver.

The fertilizers of terrorism is poverty, poor people or hungry people who can do anything for food. we need a sincere effort to reduce inequalities and particularly opportunity inequalities. This can only be achieved by tapping into Capitalist Greed.

So when you lift that glass of Champagne to ring in the new  year  ( 110,000,000 bottles world-wide) you toast should be  ” Here to the future World a place we are proud of and willing to share with all.”

When we experience a life changing event the universe gives us a peek to who we are and what we are made of.

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MY CHRISTMAS CARD 2014 – TO ALL WORLD ELDERS.

17 Wednesday Dec 2014

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Xmas WallpapersFrom space, we see a small and fragile ball.

All nations have a role to play in changing trends, and in righting an international economic system that increases rather than decreases inequality,.

There are no military solutions to ‘environmental insecurity’.

We’ve never been on a planet with no Arctic ice.

Changes in climate may trigger transformations that are simply not reversible within our lifetimes.

The only way that a 2015 agreement can achieve a 2-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy.

National and international law is being rapidly outdistanced by the accelerating pace OF GREED.

GET REAL AND PASS A RESOLUTION PLACING AN 1% AID COMMISSION ON ALL

– HIGH FREQUENCY STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS

– FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS OVER $ 20,000

– SOVEREIGNTY WEALTH ACQUISITIONS.

MAY THE BLESSINGS OF ALL GODS BE ON YOU.

In the short-term,

If you can make it in the economic interests of people to do the right thing HAPPY CHRISTMAS.

 

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IS DEMOCRACIES OUTDATED AND DYSFUNCTIONAL ?

16 Tuesday Dec 2014

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As far as I know I have written on this subject before.

Although Democracy may be a universal aspiration it is a culturally rooted practice.

Perhaps it time to recognize that its aspirations (especially presented by American Democracy which is for sale by lobbyists and donors) is not an expression of free speech and is causing extremism.

Here is short overview at where we at.

The Euro was introduced by technocrats in 1999 only two countries held referendums Sweden and Denmark both rejected it.

Italy and Greece have replaced democratically elected leaders with technocrats.

The European Parliament is both ignored and despised. It is a breeding ground for extreme parties such as Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France, Golden Dawn in Greece ( A Nazi Party) U KIP in England, a Raciest party hiding behind the very word Democracy.  There are plenty of other examples.

Democracy is clearly suffering from serious structural problems which can be seen in its institutions that are meant to provide models for new democracies.

It has been infiltrated by big business money with voters becoming if not all ready disenfranchised.

Globalisation is and has changed national politics.

More and more power is surrendered to trade and financial flows resulting is Manifesto promises not been kept. Not surprising.

Single countries can not deal with Climate Change never mind micro powers within their boundaries which are disrupting traditional politics. (NGO’S , brake away’s such as Catalans, Scots, city mayors etc.)

The Internet is making it easier to organise and agitate while people are vetoing on reality TV. With a click of a mouse you can support a petition.

Elections are no longer the biggest challenge to Democracy the deficits are.

France and Italy have not balanced their budgets for more than thirty years.

England and America can only watch as their debt clock tick fast and faster fostering unsustainable. While Sovereign Wealth funds compete for limited resources world-wide.

In the mean time Western population are getting older and more expensive creating a future between inherited entitlements and future investment.

World wide membership of political parties is falling. (1% now compared to 20% in 1950 in England.) More than half of the votes in Europe have no trust in their Governments. 62% of English votes consider there politicians to be liars. A quarter of the votes in Italy recently voted for a party founded by a comedian. In Iceland they voted in the Best Party to run the Reykjavik’s city council a party that openly proclaimed itself to be corrupt.

Across the water President Obama can even pass a budget, paralysed by 9/11, rogue regimes and Jihadists he has no choice but to swallow the ISSI Pill and look on while Mr Putin calls the Worlds bluff.

Not good reading any of it.

So the questions is what can be done.  Here a few suggestions.

  1. Change the vote system to reflect the people and not Majoritarianism.
  2. Put limits on the power of Governments, by written constitutions that reflect the rights and protects individual rights.
  3. Stop Corruption by Lobbyists.
  4. Up date our world Organisations.
  5. Name all donors to Political parties.
  6. Stop handing or selling off resources to profit.
  7. Introduce Fiscal legal rules to balance the budget.
  8. Transparency.
  9. Introduce e Democracy to create direct democracy where the Government is obliged to consider any citizens initiative that attracts 50,000 signatures.
  10. Cap Greed ( See previous Posts)

Democracy has always been a powerful but it has always been imperfect due to human creativity and perversity. It will remain so till we remind our leaders that they only borrow power.

With the state of the world and where it is going we are already in need of bright ideas. 

 

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