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Fiber Optics to the Home

Fiber optics has helped push the telecommunications system into hyperdrive. But only when fiber connections reach all the way into the home will the technology’s promise be fully realized.

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Chappell Brown

Bell Labs is known for revolutions.

In 1947 it was the transistor. Today it is photonics. Called the second silicon revolution, optical fiber systems are in an explosive state of development, reminiscent of the earlier days of the electronics industry.

Over the past two decades, since fiber-optic communications first began to appear, the carrying capacity of fiber has increased at a faster rate than Moore's law. Now the wavelength-division multiplexing revolution has accelerated that capacity even more, while introducing the flexibility of wavelength-based routing. Forged from an interdisciplinary mix of semiconductor diode lasers, micromachine technology and fundamental advances in optical glass technology, terahertz networking has arrived well ahead of schedule.

It's a major revolution riding on a broad-based industry serving the fundamental human need to communicate.

"A length of fiber long enough to circle the globe three times is produced every day, and if you extrapolate current trends to 2010, every one of the 6 billion people on earth will have a bandwidth capability equivalent to high-definition television," said Alistair Glass, director of photonics research and development at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories. Arriving at Bell Labs in 1967, Glass' career spans the development and implementation of fiber-optic communications systems.
Major breakthrough

"When I arrived, the major breakthrough was the first continuously operating laser, and it didn't run for very long-only a few minutes," Glass recalled.

"This was the time of the early hero experiments and the demands kept increasing and increasing on these devices.
There was always that pressure, but the interest in the marketplace represented a dramatic change."

There was always a strong demand to increase the performance of any device.

At first the research arm of AT&T, Bell Labs enjoyed a special status after its founding in the 1920s. Because of the monopoly granted AT&T by the government, in the interests of standardizing the telephone system, the lab could both be part of a commercial operation and play the open role of a national laboratory.

"At that time, there was not much connectivity with business- it was very much intellectually driven. We wanted to be leaders in all the fields relevant to communications," Glass said. But in the early 1980s two developments dramatically accelerated photonics research: commercial long-haul fiber-optic systems began to be installed commercially, and AT&T's monopoly was dissolved by the government, with parts of Bell Labs spun off into other companies as part of a complex divestiture of the telecommunications giant. "We were suddenly handed the mandate to develop commercial products out of our research efforts," he said.

The lab responded with a broad attack on optical communications systems. Innovations in the basic fiber, laser diodes to power them, and integrated optoelectronic components to interface with electronic data systems followed. "Since then, particularly with the founding of Lucent Technologies, optics has been accelerating at an incredible rate," Glass said.

For transporting data over long distances, fiber systems proved to be irresistible. Large bundles of copper wire could be replaced by slender silicon fibers in a process of "demassification" usually associated with the electronics industry. While the debate continues over whether optical interconnect is a viable alternative to electrical wiring inside of computers, the issue has been definitively resolved for long-distance communications. But optical interconnect inside the box may eventually succumb to a long-term trend. Recent developments in metropolitan-area networks suggest that fiber optics is riding a scaling law similar to the shrinking VLSI circuit, and the scaling rate appears to be steeper.

The rapid deployment of fiber optics received an even bigger jolt with a repeat of the '80s scenario in the 1990s. Bell Labs was again transferred in 1996 to another entity-Lucent Technologies-and made the centerpiece of a startup with considerable economic resources. Also brewing in photonics labs was a revolutionary technology called dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM), which has allowed the carrying capacity of optical fiber to ramp up at an astonishing rate. "In the mid-90s it became a fever. We went from eight to 16 to 32 wavelengths on a single fiber and our latest products use 400. Now we have just demonstrated 1,000 wavelengths," Glass noted.

Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) is a technology that puts data from different sources together on an optical fiber, with each signal carried on its own separate light wavelength. Using DWDM, up to 80 (and theoretically more) separate wavelengths or channels of data can be multiplexed into a lightstream transmitted on a single optical fiber. In a system with each channel carrying 2.5 Gbps (billion bits per second), up to 200 billion bits can be delivered a second by the optical fiber. DWDM is also sometimes called wave division multiplexing (WDM).

Since each channel is demultiplexed at the end of the transmission back into the original source, different data formats being transmitted at different data rates can be transmitted together. Specifically, Internet (IP) data, SONET data, and ATM data can all be travelling at the same time within the optical fiber.

DWDM promises to solve the "fiber exhaust" problem and is expected to be the central technology in the all-optical networks of the future. DWDM replaces time-division multiplexing (TDM) as the most effective optical transmission method. Although TDM is the primary approach in today's networks, DWDM systems are expected to be tested and deployed in late 1998 and 1999.
http://www.wiredbrain.net/dwdm.htm

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Web ProForum hosts a tutorial on DWDM from Lucent Technologies. Lucent Technologies offers its WaveStar OLS 400G, a system that provides up to 400 Gbps over a single fiber and, in its maximum eight-fiber configuration, can transmit 3.2 trillion bits per second.

DWDM uses individual segments of the optical spectrum to multiplex signals on a fiber.
The idea is recent, considered at first to be a laboratory curiosity since practical systems were already multiplexing channels with a time-division technique. Such synchronous optical networks (Sonet) had been able to extend the capacity of optical fiber and were a welcome development.
The wavelength-division multiplexing route has turned out to have far more potential: Bell Labs researchers recently demonstrated a DWDM transmission system capable of sending a terabit of data per second down a fiber. "That represents the entire world's Internet on a single glass fiber," Glass said.

The DWDM revolution has been extremely swift. When Lucent Technologies was established, DWDM was still at the laboratory demonstration stage. While the idea is simple, turning it into practical optical communications systems required a multifaceted development. Multiple-wavelength laser-diode systems and new types of fiber able to carry the multiple wavelength signals without crosstalk had to be developed. And some means of collectively amplifying multiwavelength signals had to be invented. While those problems were effectively solved in a short time, it wasn't easy. Indeed, one outstanding problem has never been solved: how to regenerate multiple wavelength signals.
Large areas

One consequence of that missing solution is the fact that DWDM can only be implemented on campus-wide or metropolitan areas. By doping fiber with the rare-earth element erbium, it is possible to build a simple light amplifier that is essentially a laser. When a multiple wavelength signal is passed through an erbium fiber loop and optically pumped, it emerges unchanged except that it is at a higher energy level. One nice aspect of this operation is that the actual content of the wavelength channels is irrelevant to the amplification process. Unfortunately, to recondition optical signals, it becomes necessary to decode their content and relaunch them. Thus signal regeneration, which is essential in long-haul networks, is still unavailable to DWDM.

Balancing this deficiency in very long transmissions is a new wave of all-optical switching elements that are able to add or remove a wavelength channel from a fiber.
These add-drop multiplexers offer a high-speed switching function that could not be duplicated with electronics, and have made metropolitan-area networks into a unique flexible, high-throughput communications medium.

This essentially new form of photonics technology is spawning an industry in optical switching components. "Now people can invent a novel device that relates to communications and it will find its way into products extremely rapidly-less than a year," said Glass. "We are now in a situation of 'invent on demand' where as soon as a problem is perceived, someone immediately comes up with a solution." Finisar Launches Optical Edge Switch For
Metropolitan Markets Finisar, a developer of gigabit rate optical link extenders, components and network analyzers, is also developing a DWDM-based aggregation system for extending Fibre Channel SANs and Gigabit Ethernet LANs across metropolitan fiber networks. http://www.finisar.com/
Finisar's fiber optic systems include GBIC transceivers,optical multiplexers and link extenders, protocol analyzers and data generators for Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. http://www.finisar.com/products/prodframe.htm

This explosive growth poses a formidable challenge to electronics technology. "If you compare the speed of silicon chips versus the capacity of optical fiber communications, fiber optics is going significantly faster than electronics, and where the fiber ends-that becomes a significant bottleneck." Glass is convinced that fiber to the home office and then fiber to the home are just around the corner. "We have a demonstration project going with Bell South where we have wired up a suburban neighborhood with little fiber-optic network units on the side of each house," he said.

Dealing with the high volumes of data that are coming off optical fibers will present a big challenge to electronics. Fortunately, wavelength-division multiplexing eases that task since each wavelength can be processed simultaneously by different circuits. Ultimately, electronics and optics technologies offer complementary abilities: "Optics is ideal for transporting data from point A to point B, but it is weak in the area of logic and switching," Glass pointed out. "That is where we will need electronics."
Copyright c 2000 CMP Media Inc. By Chappell Brown

The world economic summit is less interesting because the big and powerful are less interesting.

The rate of technological has multiplied on itself because computers can work faster and communications are better therefore computers and communications becomes faster and faster. My guess is that optic fiber to the door will make on-air or cable broadcasting uneconomic - video on demand will replace it - the program producers will distribute directly to the consumer - like in MP3 - the video store goes on line -
The move producer - such as Blair Witch could be sold directly - same with any show or news or whatever - so there goes networks - maybe even magazine writers with direct sales -

Corning wants to turn glass to cash By Phil Harvey Redherring.com, February 17, 2000

http://www.redherring.com/insider/2000/0217/tech-corning021700.html

http://www.redherring.com/insider/1999/0903/inv-components.html

Wireless systems can get up to 400 kps to a million somehow - http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm for a lot of applications that is fine - and OS chip technology will make greater use of less and less with less energy and heat - more light and lighter -
code division multiple access (CDMA) technology.
HP is investing $2 million in New Media Venture Partners (NMVP) and will provide up to $15 million in debt financing to help the company fund and incubate e-commerce start-ups. In return, subsidiaries of NMVP will use HP products and services.

If I were a high technology company - in information systems, computers, communications or any part of the 25 % of the economy - and almost all the growth sector - now including networks - broadcasting - publishing - entertainment - music - video - electronics - service - I would have a venture capital connection so I could send people out and find out what is going on.
The battle for the airwaves is not just about broadband but the content - software and services. If you put a few hundred thousand in interesting technologies you gain access to information.
There is almost a certainty that something will come from left field and change all the rules again.

Cable is too slow and greedy.
The telephone companies too slow and bureaucratic. Both have shown a preference for short term gains rather than long term survival. Microsoft is showing the same brain arthritis - inflexible - such as IBM was - GM and other big and rich - missed every important technology - but could buy it after it had been proven. That may or may not be possible. .

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm

The most common wireless transmission standard, GSM, which stands for Global Systems for Mobile communications, is particularly prevalent in Europe and Asia. According to market research firm Dataquest, nearly 157 million GSM-based mobile phones will be shipped worldwide this year, compared with shipments of about 43 million CDMA cell phones.

But many industry observers say CDMA, strongest in North America, is more efficient and can handle Internet-based transmissions better.

There is also time division and dense systems - I do believe the key is China - the PLA and post telegraph - along with the EU will set the standards.

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re: ORCL, HP team with Utilities in Consortium to Fiber the Last Mile

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/01/24/000124hnutility.xml

"...taking advantage of the deregulated telecom industry, the small, tightly knit consortium will initially offer digital voice, TV, and Web hosting over fiber, under the name SpectraDyne Services. It includes Sierra Pacific Power Company, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, and TelecommUnity Systems."

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/subject.gsp?subjectid=29127

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FBCE+FIBR+JDSU+MRVC+OPTC+OPTX+ORTL+POCI+SCMR&d=t

The following image need to be firmly in mind to understand the AOL/ Time Warner deal - and the frenzy going on in telecommunications and computer industries.
The time frame is about 10 years - the impact comes first in Northern Europe - Singapore - parts of the states - parts of Hong Kong and China - Japan - Taiwan - South East Asia - Australia ( already with system under construction )

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm

There is optic to the door provided by the utility company. It is a common carrier providing:

TV programs on demand on a big flat screen digital high definition system - programs are recorded and played as you desire, when you desire on any of the screens around the wired house you desire.
There is no need for program schedules - movies and other video content are downloaded on demand from world wide services. Some charge fees some are free with or without ads. You can watch the BBC news or CNN or C-span type programs any time.
There is no need for movie or music channels since you can order anything you want anytime.

The same with music, either rented for a limited number of replays, or purchased and transferred to CD or DVD -
The same with interactive media - games and educational services for the wired " smart" house - When you leave the security system goes on - with complete radar monitoring of any motion with recording of motion, the heat or AC is turned down, when you click from your cell phone that you are returning home - the lights and heat or AC is reset, the music turned on and the doors unsecured.

The cell phone - palm pilot - personal digital assistant works at 400 kbps to 4 Mbs with GPS, e-mail and other web content, fold up or screen keyboards, long life batteries, high gain reception of dense multiplex time division wideband GS3 codes.Europe, with its common GSM standard, will likely usher in "3G" technologies (with their 2 megabit/second data to pockets) years before it happens in the U.S.' fragmented cellular environment. And fast wireless data will surely usher in many new Opportunities. -
http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/technology/2000/01/24/ega.html).

The home terminal - NEXUM - provides wireless ( bluetooth ) connection to the mobile elements, TV, music, games, information systems with voice commands. You say " Write a note" and dictate as it appears on the big screen. You correct with the portable keyboard that is used for interactive TV.
The master computer works within a network "master server in the sky" to provide services you need or enjoy. Shopping, banking, tele-communities, video conferences, design and research, games and social activities, travel and adventure, and tuned to your interests and desires.
The master server bills for usage in micro pennies for "extras" but charges a flat fee for "basic services". Several master server companies compete for services on the common carrier -

The services are not tied to the wire - optic cable - so there are two bills - one for connection services - the wireless and wired ( optic ) and another from the service company that passes along charges for rentals, fee for service charges, software licenses, communications on and off net, as we do today with local and long distance phone services and premium cable services.

Where is the money made ? Optic fiber hardware - mobile hardware, utility company right-of-way and network services, the "general utility service company" maybe AOL, Microsoft, NOISE group ( Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems and everyone else ) Amazon, or others which provides the interface between the user and service providers - banks, insurance, finance and markets, shopping, software and music and games and movies and communications, and entertainment, security, smart home management, and on and on...
The super on-line service using optic fiber to the door.

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm

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Dr. Pflaum ( for a fee ) will research the events and technologies that will effect your future and give you reports and advice. it's a great site -
how about quantum computing
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http://www.foresight.org/

Borders, periphery, frontiers:
Life and cognizance exists on the edge of quantum and classical physics.
The very small ( nano ) works by most extraordinary rules - objects have properties that allow them to move from here to there without going through the intermediate space. Time is not linear and space bends. Objects themselves appear, take on properties, and then change their character and reappears in a different form. At the atomic and molecular level the connections can be open and creative rather than mechanical and determined. Uncertainty is a fundamental prerequisite of creativity and life itself. A really clever computer working with uncertainly could work at this level and have some sort of consciousness. This would be an interesting invention of this century.
http://www.foresight.org/cgi-bin/aglimpse?query=quantum&relpath=&errors=0&age=&maxfiles=50&maxlines=30 quantum dots (or single-electron transistors), quantum wells, quantum wires, spin transistors or arrays of all these devices. low power quantum electronics, and high bandwidth photonics are of special interest, as are the demonstrations of space subsystems based on these technologies.
http://www.aero.org/conferences/micro-nano/

Candidate technologies receiving attention include various quantum functional devices, quantum computing, DNA computing, and molecular electronics explained for molecular diode switches, molecular transistors, and molecular logic gates. This talk would provide an overview on one such candidate technology based on carbon and other nanotubes. the novel Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL), which differs in design from traditional laser diodes. This treatment burned out the protein shell and yielded two dimensional arrays of inorganic iron oxide dots on the Si wafer.
The size and repeat distance of the dots were 6 and 12 nm, respectively, as measure by FE-SEM and AFM. As the diameter of the iron oxide dots is only 6 nm, this two imensional array of inorganic iron oxide dots has a potential to be used as quantum dots. Feasibility study of the application of this dot array to the structure of semiconductor memory is now in progress.
For Example: Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service. With
Dialpad.com, you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US. Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software. You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
weirdbrain ' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates. n.
Fate; destiny. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “
The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).

http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations. But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/

articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).
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http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm
A short introduction to quantum computation
Max PLANCK Heisenberg, and Erwin SCHRÖDINGER's wave mechanics, and Born, are the people of the 20th century who will most influence the 21 st. We will see the application of quantum computer fairly soon. It could ( so will ) have some level of self awareness we call consciousness
http://www.qubit.org/intros/comp/comp.html

Being in two places at the same time - or going from here to there without passing through the space between.
The nature of matter at this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience it, energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another instantly.

"
The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes from one type of physical realization to another --- from gears to relays to valves to transistors to integrated circuits and so on ...

On the atomic scale matter obeys the rules of quantum mechanics, which are quite different from the classical rules that determine the properties of conventional logic gates. So if computers are to become smaller in the future, new, quantum technology must replace or supplement what we have now.
The point is, however, that quantum technology can offer much more than cramming more and more bits to silicon and multiplying the clock-speed of microprocessors. It can support entirely new kind of computation with qualitatively new algorithms based on quantum principles!

suggestions: FIRST:
The list of companies in tele-communications

http://telecom.tbi.net/network1.htm
People who purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents, are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks, such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive. And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system. Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony. This will never happen.
It's a problem crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken, as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software. You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Services for the masses

In the near future, services such as these will replace the PC for millions of people who were never cut out to be PC administrators. Thin-client operating systems, such as Citrix MetaFrame running on MS Terminal Server, combined with ISDN, ADSL or cable modem Internet access, will inevitably be the basis of a virtual PC service that will revolutionize the industry.
Instead of buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump on it.
The technology to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.

The new school

What could an relevant on-line school be like.

Color is better than black and white.
Three dimensions is better than two.
Round is better than flat.
Fast is more successful than slow.

Civilization progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man and nature, and greater freedom of participation.

Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.

Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.

There are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:

1. ) Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes place in the process of invention

2.)
The organizing themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions not disciplines

3.) there is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions between actors and classes.

The word is
convergence - Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.

The NEXUM project:

http://www.wiredbrain.net/nexum.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.net/nano.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.net/symbian.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.net/broadband.htm

High Speed Internet by Soliton

http://www.wiredbrain.net/dwdm.htm

The design of the general communications and computing device.

Design teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity, storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine interface ( ergonomics
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ergonomics.htm ) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities, applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market demand factors all in one organized package.

Management, information technology, marketing, human resources and production need to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers still have a way to go - the
NEXUM
must leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.

How is systems analysis different

from what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more dimensions.

It becomes much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications, using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all this the next time we make contact ?

Amazon.com has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric. Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales. It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different items.

A friendly server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial records and market research. Can any client using different tools access open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards, ? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing systems.

The invention of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy

Color is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.
As I understand IT , a new type of technology using Time Synchronization Systems Through DCF77 or GPS signal and using a 10,000 MHTZ chip can transmit MEGA-BITS the last mile. In synergy with solid state atomic level MEMORY TECHNOLOGY data moves from FROM MEGA-BIT TO GIGA-BIT per second. High Speed processors adapted from TERCOM - terrain contour matching 10,000 MHz chip used in the cruise missile terrain following "smart bombs" or using guided radio waves or laser beam targeting based on rapid image recognition.

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE Add this speed to :
According to CMR ( http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html ), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100 megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid state, and has a different operating approach."
add you get:
Symbian joint venture between Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will be a connection between smart mobile phones and Internet-ready games such as the consoless Sony’s PlayStation 2
Behind the news: a common thread of interconnectedness
Imagine a fat monitor or a hand held device or using
i-Burst broadband Internet protocol technology a card which is a personal linking device that plugs into the electrical energy fields system and a USB ( universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) that creates the connection to the life force.
The device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay by use applications.

Crank up the broadband

Third-generation services are coming soon to a mobile phone near you --

but first the platforms and standards have to be resolved.

Electricity made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and computers possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace circuits, self fixing double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD ( personal access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a pipeline that connects you to the backbone of the internet.
A machine called NEXUM

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What science knows
MSN now does the best search
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All Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world

What does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global society ? What is the image they pursue ?
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CONVERGENCE: Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell on the spot all kinds of good and services.

What is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.

In the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the broadband connections really works then personal computers become network devices or
http://www.wiredbrain.net/NEXUM.htm a multipurpose communications and entertainment console.

AOL Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections they will control the content.
The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and on-line sales provide the profits.

It's not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions, even pick appliances and cars.
They will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.

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disintermedation means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning. I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.

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Broadband frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.

Broadband Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5 licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites).
The licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15 years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable networks.
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The battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high. Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions per day.
The dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role, but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
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Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1 worldwide by the year 2003.
The five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America and 114% in other regions.
The Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications. Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable, data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by the telcos.
The cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access, and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities, unencumbered by existing services.
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AOL can do what Sears did.
The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.

The comprehensive, omnibus, all-embracing, all-encompassing, across-the-board, INCLUSIVE, EXTENSIVE widespread, epidemic, GENERAL international, world-wide, global, cosmic, UNIVERSAL, UBIQUITOUS appliance device, mechanical contraption, gadget, gismo, CONTRIVANCE doodad, doohickey, thingy, thingamabob, thingamajig, that we all will carry around. At the counter in Wal-Mat it connects quickly by infra-red link to the charge ( debit ) machine.
The true paper-less banking. What do we have ? What did we buy ? How much did it cost on record.
We talk to it. Call home. Get personal mail. Check on the price of dry wall. What is the quote on 20 year fixed term money ? Where do I go next ? How do I get there ? Call ahead and confirm I will be 10 minutes late. What’s on the menu, reserve the table by the window and order ahead. Who has the best price on or for or going - on anything ? Who wants to buy or sell ? How is the car doing ? Can I fly to Jerusalem in the morning and rent a car and get a hotel and make appointments ?
When connected to a terminal I can type or see better - out of the digital airwaves or on cable or on optic fiber in Africa to China down-links and up links with nodes and storage
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE and services at my command charges by the micro-penny. Always on with a flat connection fee.
How our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell phones, broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber, DSL or all of the above ?

The news tracker connection then runs everything.
The Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.

In doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use different forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts, and can mess each other and the author up. Now since they ( Netscape ( AOL ) and Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Sun and everyone else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw each other with the author in the middle.

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and too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins, ActiveX, virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..

This is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the communications systems can communicate with each other.
The system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are ( kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail, conference, word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.

The standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.

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StarOffice 5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at

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65 MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html

StarOffice has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions. With the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice provides significant performance and feature upgrades that improve user experience and productivity.

StarOffice 5.1 includes:

StarOffice Writer for document editing,

StarOffice Calc for creating spreadsheets,

StarOffice Impress for creating presentations,

StarOffice Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,

StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,

StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail,

StarOffice Base for creating interfaces to databases,

StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news, and

StarOffice Math for creating complex formulas,

StarOffice Workplace for creating a desktop environment

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The integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents, diagrams, images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and word.

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Linux to attack Windows

in both the client and server arenas

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NOISE: and Linux

Netscape, ( now with AOL ) Oracle, IBM, Sun microsystems and everyone else mainly Corel and Caldera Systems Web site, a Canopy Group holding under the Ray Noorda/Canopy Group Investment Company. Ray Noorda is the former CEO of Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL)

AOL and netscape plan a PAD ( personal access device )such as:

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will soon be the purveyor of a new, $299 PC for first-time buyers. But don't expect cutting-edge technology.

The store, along with Kmart Corp. and Toys "R" Us Inc., will test market the new low-cost PC created by Global PC, a firm owned by Compu-DAWN Inc., maker of communications products such as the e.TV set-top box.

The blue-light specials are expected to begin in October.

The new PC is known internally at Global PC as the "Classic" because of its design. It comes with a full complement of the things people expect from a PC, including a chassis, keyboard, mouse and floppy drive. It's based around a 100MHz 486 processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD) and can be used with a monitor or regular television.

NEXUM

This may work IF it's tied to and has the speed and graphics for GAMES - NINTENDO 64 , PLAYSTATION , SEGA SATURN , GAME BOY , GAME GEAR , SUPER NINTENDO, SEGA GENESIS ,etc. and interactive online games such as doom.

Instead of licensing Windows or building on Linux, the company licensed Geoworks Corp.'s GEOS and developed two new user interfaces and a software suite for it. Links for GEOS/Geoworks/New Deal/Breadbox/FuzzyLogic Jupiter Software

GEOS, now in its third version, was originally developed in 1983 as an alternative desktop operating system, but it has been used widely in handhelds, smart phones such as Nokia Corp.'s Communicator, and the Geobook, a notebook computer sold by Brother Industries Ltd. GEOS offers several features that Windows does not, including "instant on."

This story was printed from ZDNN, located at http://www.zdnet.com/

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Blue-light special on Aisle 4: PCs By John G. Spooner, ZDNN August 16, 1999 2:58 PM PT URL: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2315355,00.html

What did Bill Gates and Allen do that made Microsoft such a great power and economic engine?

They took UNIX and set it up for the micro-computer, then quickly added features to appeal to developers. When IBM used DOS in their PS they did so because there was software that people could use. As you can’t sell radios without stations and you can’t have stations without radios - you can sell machines without applications.

Then once DOS was a "standard" and claimed open systems Microsoft quickly added more and more attachments that developers could use to save time.

Common packages for user made new applications easier.
They spent a great deal of time and effort recruiting and training and supporting 100’s of thousands of developers and system managers.

Soon MS became to only game in town and then the evil empire attacked by replacing the programs ( or buying them ) for the most profitable applications - office suite.
They almost wiped out WordPerfect, Corel, Novell, Lotus and took over a big hunk of IBM’s market share.

This is exactly what Linux ( being really open ) hopes to do.

Since everyone else H-P, IBM, Oracle SUN, have a real interest in being Windows free - why not?

Linux can run windows applications, will have a GUI ( graphic user interface ) and be free in it’s basic form. You can but a CD which will partition your hard drive and set up dual boot ( boot into windows or Linux ) and have programs that will work on either system. If it stays open ( which it will ) it could be a whole lot better in a years or two than windows. Windows has gotten hopeless blotted, patched, and over complex so it CRASHES. Since Linux is open to improvements from the community it should be better.

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PAD personal access device news search

in products ranging from Windows terminals to portable PADs (personal access devices).

Three kinds of PADs will emerge, Polacek said:

a CRT-based PAD, similar to Apple Computer Inc.'s iMac;

a kitchen PAD that is connected to a wall for e-mail and

Web browsing; and a portable PAD, with wireless communication.

"It's a given that a huge part of the market, if not all of the market, is going to move towards this subsidized model," said Mike Polacek, vice president of National Semi's Internet Appliance Division in Santa Clara, Calif.
"We're going more and more in that direction."

AOL is "working with National Semiconductor on an appliance device [ based on Geode] for access," said- Polacek.

NEXUM

Lots of partners

The AOL device will likely be designed for sending e-mail and browsing the Web. It will likely be distributed at little or no cost to customers who sign up for AOL's online service.

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We still need a name for the UCD: UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE NEXUM or "information - communications - appliance - utility- network computer, cable or wireless black box modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), play station, boom box, CD, DVD, VHS, camera, VCR, telephone, wireless, cordless, portable, TV, radio, pager, laptop, notebook, library, GPS, map, yellow pages, combat walk and talk and call in air strikes more".

http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/ for current updates Indeed, Yahoo has just announced a strategy to capitalize on this move, bringing "Yahoo Everywhere" to European mobile phones!

Steve Boom, Yahoo Europe's director of business development, explains in the June 10 IDG News ( http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=11320 ) that,

"We want to make sure the experience [Yahoo users] get from the phone is a full Yahoo experience."

And Yahoo also has designs on set top boxes and other new communicating, computing, appliances...*

Others are working on moving the Internet right to your pocket as well - British Telecom, AT&T Wireless and other big players, is now working towards implementing IP, the protocol that powers the Internet, right over the airwaves to your pocket cell phone

( http://www.totaltele.com/secure/view.asp?ArticleID=22675&Pub=tt&categoryid=0 ).

And this, according to Ericsson's senior manager of wireless strategy Filip Lindell, could mark,
"...the end of the circuit-switched telecommunications world."

Such activity is not just taking place in Europe. Motorola and Sun have entered into an agreement http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker= mot&script=410&layout=7&item_id=35469 ) to implement a wireless IP infrastructure beginning in 2001 that would provide the wireless equivalent,

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The money is in software now moving from "programs" to content.
The content will be interactive media that includes program functions. ISP such as AOL, will provide multimedia E-mail as a word processor that can handle graphics, photographs, soon video and data files.
The browser becomes a universal systems package do all the most common functions as plug-ins. Which is what StarOffice 5 does. It is a free download from Sun microsystems at

http://www.sun.com/

The USB universal serial bus ties to printers, sound and video systems, play stations, phones, keyboards and voice commands, other appliances and services. Microsoft-NBC-General Electric, merge into a
convergence of media and communications services. Time-Warner, the News Corp., Disney-ABC, are positioning themselves for the transformation of many business into one.
The current crop of Internet stocks are unlikely to be very important.

Other business includes finance, matching buyers and sellers, and a thousand other ideas and items.
The ISP becomes a bank and travel agent, department store, and service center. Wal-mart, Sears and other may need their own ISP. Clients will pay the ISP for telephone service, cable, lease of hardware, Internet, credit, and may buy their insurance, tickets, or dishes from a company they trust, so it all adds up.

A limited set of functions and libraries in or around a CPU, with the capacities of a play station, will run a package of on demand utilities called from the network. Once there is a break in the bandwidth, your browser can quickly call down any packages it may need - high speed smart updates means you don’t have to have everything stored. Office systems can do this now but are afraid to be pioneers with arrows in their backs. Once Sun, Oracle, IBM or others really have high performance objective networks there will be no need for the bloated windows operation systems.

The market often is as slow as the political process in facing the inevitable forces of technology and social history. Cartels and semi-monopolies are the natural outcome of free competition because organizations can join together to control markets.

The robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century, such as Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Stanford, Dupont controlled steel and oil, railroads and chemicals. General Motors president Alfred P. Sloan worked with the du Pont's to control the auto market. A U.S. Court of Appeals finds that Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa) held a 90 percent monopoly in U.S. aluminum ingot production before the war, a monopoly enjoyed by the Mellons for more than half a century. See RCA (NBC - Victor ) below..

Sun's McNealy portrays perils of running the Wintel 'gauntlet' ) ( Windows/intel )

http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnews2.inp

Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., one could easily draw the conclusion that most of the ills in the computer industry stem from one company and one company only.

The charismatic McNealy used large portions of his keynote address here Thursday at Sun's JavaOne developers conference, as well as a subsequent press conference, to paint Microsoft Corp. as a ruthless monopoly destroying companies and promoting a flawed business model.

"
The market economy works until somebody gets so much market power that they are beyond market principles," he said.

McNealy said Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop through the Windows operating system enables it to sell "bloat" like Office 2000 that people have to buy.

"
The other opportunity it has is to go out and buy little companies that wouldn't normally be successful, bundle them into their Windows or Office hairball and use their lock-in and monopoly leverage to make them successful and drive everyone else out of business," McNealy said. "That makes everybody want to sell their company for a price lower than they want to because if you're not the one bought, you're done."

One of the best examples of how new technologies can be dominated by powerful forces that control standards was the companion development of hardware ( Radios, phonographs, and then television ) as well as soft ware, the programming, records and content necessary to sell the product. People won’t buy radios or TV if there are no stations, there can’t be stations until people have radios or TVs. RCA supported the networks in order to sell radios.
Then they made more from the broadcasting then they did from hardware.

Sarnoff, David, 1891–1971, American radio and television pioneer; b. Russia. He worked for the Marconi Wireless Co., winning recognition as the narrator of the Titanic disaster (1912). After the Radio Corp. of America absorbed (1921) Marconi, Sarnoff became general manager. As president (after 1930) and chairman of the board (from 1947) of RCA, he played a major role in the development of television.

A superheterodyne circuit developed by U.S. Army Signal Corps major Edwin Howard Armstrong, 26, became the basic design for all amplitude modulation (AM) radios. It greatly increases the selectivity and sensitivity of radio receivers over a wide band of frequencies (see 1906; FM, 1933). Radio Corp. of America (RCA) was founded by Owen D. Young (see 1919) who loans Ernst Alexanderson to RCA which will employ him as chief engineer for 5 years (see 1906). RCA acquired the Victor Co. and become a radio-phonograph colossus but anti-trust court actions will separate RCA from GE (see VICTROLA, 1906; NBC, 1926). David Sarnoff urges marketing of a simple "radio music box."
The American Marconi Co. says his plan will make the radio "a ‘household utility’ in the same sense as the piano or phonograph" (see 1912; 1920).

American radio and television pioneer who proposed the first commercial radio receiver and in 1926 formed the National Broadcasting Company.
The first vinylite phonograph record appears in October. RCA-Victor issues a new recording of the 1895 Richard Strauss work Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, but vinylite will not displace shellac until the perfection of long-playing records (see 1948).

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Of course, market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass psychology called perceptions. BUT, over the longer run, basic economic principles and the laws of social physics will "correct" the difference between false perceptions and a harder reality.

In the current context the following will happen - the only question is when:

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The misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:

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We're moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections between utility network computers.

Like the human brain, the internet's packets system can reconfigure itself to work even after portions were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital traffic would have to be broken into short message blocks now called

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each containing its own routing information, like a DNA molecule , and able to replicate itself correctly whenever a transmission error occurred. With many additions and permutations, his original design is today termed the Internet, click here for the emerging history of the 21st century .

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An astro-physicist has said ‘ there is no reason that people should be ever be able to understand the universe’. Our biological and intellectual background is so naturally limited by our life experience here on Earth. We have no way of comprehending or visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways impossibly strange to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves models that are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.

Most people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within a fifty mile range.
Their perceptions are defined within what is called a tribal culture - part real and part superstition. Applied rational knowledge is fairly modern as a cultural style and still not seriously or firmly established as a norm.
The irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics and commercials.

NOW as we enter into a global technical society our social world is as little understood as the physical.
The new world order - lacks a vision or social psychological foundation. ]

The technology itself is revolution ary.

The global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional, mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos - morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive of the existing order.

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We're moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
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RE:Why changes in communications is the most important story of our times;

Biological systems involve connections of nested networks with billions of messages, transactions, relationships, forming cells, individuals, food chains, ecologies and a global WIREDBRAIN .

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Why does Clinton continue to gain support vs. the decline of the negative, fundamentalist, religious dogmatic right and their talk show hosts, such as Rush and all the scandal and conspiracy mongers along with Ken Starr and the politics of the sexual inquisition.

We are in the age of free forms, Saturday Night Live, Rap and hip hop, the counter culture is the culture and the silent majority has become the reactionary old minority. ttp://www.eonline.com/Hot/Features/Sizzlin99/index.html?fd.up.bl
Well, what are you waiting for? You've got a date with the future.

No, Virginia there is not a literal Santa Claus, there is no tooth Fairy, the bible is not the literal word of God, the world was not created in seven days seven thousand years age and the President is a human with human talents and faults.

To love God with your whole heart, mind and spirit - emotionally, intellectually, and mystically, is the first commandment, upon which hangs all the law and the prophecies.

It is ideology to worship the means or process, without understanding the ends.
The means are formal while the ends are personal.
There is a human quest to move beyond self, people want to go beyond time and place to meet the universe as it really is and has been and will be. Other people rather do anything else.

Our ideas are usually false guides to a transcendental reality. We are blind to the nature of Elephants, we are lions in a pit who will attack those who try to rescue us, we do not really know who we are and what we really need or want. In simple terms we are not really awake but in a half sleep and only pretend to be conscious.

Thus we are good customers of false hope, fast cars and women, bad fast food, snake oil salesmen, demagogue and false prophet and prophetess.

The ritual, the Laws, the traditions are means to the end of a synergy society.
They are collective myths often mistaken for reality. In a synergy benefits are derived from common sharing of spirit, trust and faith. To made the law or traditions into a GOD with absolute truth, is the fault made by Philistines and innocents everywhere.

Our country is not always right, extremism in the defense of liberty is a serious fault, moderation in the pursuit of earthly ends in always a good idea, our society is not Zion, we are not a species of special divine selection to be saints. We are not inherently different from the general flow of world history, sinners and knaves, obstructing justice, organizing collective stupidity, covering the road to hell with good speeches and intentions.

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The- four principles:

1.)
The rule of law
2.) Sound currency
3.) Reasonable regulations and standards
4.) Rational taxes

The Information Economy:

1 .) Rapid decline in the cost of hardware and communications
2.) Rapid increase in usage
3.) Increased speed of applications of new technical standards and symbols of integrity
4.) Rapid change in organizations

How do these tie together ?

1.) International law for global commerce
2.) Global currencies and banking - credit systems
3.) Global communications standards
4.) International standards for taxes, business regulation

The "new world order" requires systems of international regulation of global commerce. A rule of law for communications - rapid systems for deployment of new technologies and reasonable conditions for enterprise.

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http://www.hotwired.com/special/ene/index.html?nav=part_three&word=intro_one

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