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syn·er·gy (sîn¹er-jê)
noun an idea in cultural anthropology from Ruth
Benedict and Abraham Maslow plural syn·er·gies
1.
The interaction of two or more
agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum
of their individual effects.
2. Cooperative interaction among
groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a
corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect. .
[From Greek sunergia, cooperation,
from sunergos, working together. SYNERGISM.]
A Starrting
Point on Life Long Learning
How this site works:
The article
from Friday, May 10, 1996 9:40:31 AM see mother.txt and welfare.txt for
"Small Schools and teen age mothers" "Charter schools", randayn for Ayn
Rand and the new right, biod.txt for biodiversity, downsizing and the Internet
( BELOW ) and they are put on as seauton.txt, mother.txt, welfare.txt,
charter.txt etc.
Project on the internet Market
services
Yes, we agree, Kevin is getting
the server up by May 15th and will have workgroups with Netbios going -
he is very good and the system will be interactive like a real LANs. What
we need is Beta
testers with windows 95 and enough "smarts" to be in a test workgroup
- starting very soon.
RE:
The world is not impartial,
unbiased or equitable:
Thomas Jefferson, in a apogee
of political rhetoric, was objectively wrong when he wrote in the most
important political document of modern history; "/de hold these truth to
be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." As the Founding Fathers knew,
the power of the state is a constantly shifting balance of power between
individual interest, collective interests, and conflicts of interest. Rights
are gained in struggle, enforced in courts, political struggle, with the
barrow of a musket and maintained by vigorous and constant vigilance.
http://docs.whitehouse.gov/white-house-publications/1997/01/1997-01-20-presidents-inaugural-address.text
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate
Release January 20, 1997
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
U.S. Capitol
12:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:
My fellow citizens:
" At this last presidential
inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges
that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time
and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new
millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs --
a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to
come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient
vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.
The promise of America was
born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created
equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation
spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge
of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph,
that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
And what a century it has
been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power; saved the
world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and
again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for
the blessings of liberty. ......
america demands and deserves
big things from us -- and nothing big ever came from being small. (Applause.)
Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing
the end of his own life. He said: "It is wrong to waste the precious gift
of time, on acrimony and division."
Fellow citizens, we must not
waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same JOURney
of our lives, and our JOURney, too, will come to an end. But the JOURney
of our America must go on.
And so, my fellow Americans,
we must be strong, for there is much to dare.
The demands of our time are
great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage,
with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of
this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our
bridge. (Applause.) A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American
to cross over to a blessed land of new promise. "
President William Jefferson
Clinton was also technically wrong in his cryptic political rhetoric yesterday.
The "map is not the territory", and language is not action, dreams are
not policy, hope is not accomplishment.
There is no objective reality to
the symbols of hope, dreams, ideals, faith, and love. We live in a cold
indifferent universe, there is not an friendly spirit that rewards good
and punishes evil, nothing outside our social system protects us and cares
about our welfare.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The fault of atheist and logical
positivism is that impartial reality is not all that is important. Subjective
reality, emotional attachments, empathy, belief, faith, hope and charity
are also critical, all is not science and engineering.
There is a clear
reality to "vision" of new promise, unity, social values, peace, justice
and prosperity.
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SYNERGY-NET New Information in
a new way, an interactive classroom on the WWW. For those who are new here
- or don't understand what is going on.. here are the themes that are developed
in many ways.
If you really want to "break"
the mold and try something a little more interesting than Covey check out
program developed on the SYNERGY-NET.
We will cut and paste for
any group - make it simple - difficult etc. We use nominal group process
to help set goals in the beginning and break up into groups on the base
of styles of personality. It is then a free form depending on the group
dynamics. I don't believe in keeping to an agenda but go with the flow.
The method is the message and we do what we say - liberty ( less government
more freedom ) means less set goals and methods and process. TWO equality
means the people have a lot to contribute and should be able to have a
big voice in what they do - and how they do it - and third real groups
with real power of choice.
RE: Three to five day DYNAMIC
SYNERGY workshops
RE: Plan Ahead......but look
out: hold hands, group-ware is the base of a vast social revolution. Two
models of social technology:
The old dying territorial structured bureaucracies
and new un-tied, transient, flexible, task-force, collaborate work groups.
Our site is a test bed for the new world order.
NOTE: go to http://www.altavista.digi
tal.com then http://www.digita
l.com:80/info/home.html and take a look at Digital's plans for the
Internet. If you have Netscape 2 or Atlas with Hot Java their presentation
is very innovative. ( Was there yesterday but gone today ?) OH here it
is ! http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
Mother's DAY: Our mothers
told us polite lies. Do this, or avoid that and it will work out.
The world
we expected didn't happen. We need, want, and hope for a more sensible
secure world than we got. Downsizing, instability, change is happening
all around us, and most of us don't like it and can't cope.
The interactive web is happening
even faster than I thought. Most of our social institutions, habits, economy,
global perspective, are changing. Change, is as in the Chinese character,
made from danger inside an opportunity.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
RE: First Synergy Symposium:
The WWW as a life form;
Categories for the filing
system: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.
Our domain hardware is in
place, the phone lines connected and we are attaching our node to the next
level provider to the Internet backbone. I am designing the seminar interface
using evolutionary biology as a paradigm. I have come up with these topic
areas, that will become part of the file management systems. I would really
like your ideas.
The Categories below become
part of the on-going open forum that is the Synergy
Network .
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
Synergy
Network is the global village square and the Internet forum. Here we
met Plato, who following his sufi teacher Socrates, discussed with the
Sophists the existence of the unchanging and invisible God. A spirit who
in many forms visits us in the dreamtime. From these visions or ideas,
is the certain knowledge which is the foundation of all law and values,
traditions and customs and a good life. He came to believe that since we
live by illusions, anyway, and somethings will always be a mystery, are
in fact unknowable: we should have good, beautiful dreams of an objective
truth. A tree we will know by its' fruit, the juice of the grape by the
wine.
Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:
Before the Cambrian extinction
( 450 million years ago ) there were hundreds of basic body designs. Only
a few dozen survived, one of which was one using internal bones and tubes,
becoming fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.
The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications protocols,
the web structure, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, and the way we connect and how fast.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
Regulation and legislation
are part of the body styles issues.
Body Structure: Hard Ware
and Soft Ware: Providers, servers, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, phone and cable lines, wireless,
satellite, cell phones, backbones - shape the body style of the Internet.
Body Parts:
I-phone, chat, VDO, Http,
the grammar of communications is the nervous system.
The lines are the
blood circulation.
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The Forum: Winframe, the conference
programs: maybe should be part of:
Area two: COMMUNITIES:
Ecological communities are
complex dynamic systems that have many counter-intuitive relationships.
For example, the role of the matrical elephant in the group, provides memory,
experience and leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use
of soil minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support predators,
on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not simply the "survival"
of the fittest but how communities fit into the complex and often unstable
dynamics of whole systems.
Communities and interfaces:
The food chain; Who is eating whom in
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
Search: AltaVista, Yahoo,
and the other search engines form connections between communities of web
pages.
Message transfer: http - editors
- ftp - chat - Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.
Storage and filing: Access,
data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of saving and finding
materials.
On-line services: Compuserve,
America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time Warner, NBC -
Nodes and Niches:
The media
and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs
-
Digital on Netscape Community
systems that promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other Applications.
Area three: DYNAMICS of change:
What is done by whom and how:
The history of evolutionary biology is long periods of boredom and short
periods of terror and mass extinctions.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
Complex systems have counter-intuitive
interactions ( Blau and Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial
dynamics, Senge in Organizational Learning ) Starr fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls, sea turtles,
have second and third and fourth repercussions in dynamic communities.
Netscape and mosaic is an
example of dynamic shifts in the ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer
systems tied to providers is another.
Public Schools are the most
resistant to change of any of our major institutions.
They do the talk
be don't take the walk. Nothing really has changed except a steady decline
in standards.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
Awareness of possible futures
causes the fear of change or hope for a better world; Every action has
a reaction.
Ritual, fear of change, group-think,
are the natural reaction to concerns about the future. Because we are aware
of ourselves we become self-conscious. Because we are dependent on a social
system we become concerned with ambiguity of these affiliations and need
to fit in, share the collective illusions.
The origins of the species maybe
more than an allegory of the ecology of dynamic systems. Stephen Jay Gould
and Edward O. Wilson (
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
For more on the extinctions
see: http://www.well.co
m/user/elin/mstry.htm from Elin Whitney-Smith elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/eli
n
Somewhere about 10,000 years
ago one group of the few million humans became fearful and hopeful. Among
the life of the "Beasts" life can be uncertain. Predication, starvation,
uncertainty is a daily fact of life. Who will eat whom today in the Wild
Kingdom ? But do they worry ?
They are aware of danger, or they don't survive.
But conscious worries about things that " might happen " are human concerns.
All the things our mothers worried about that didn't happen or we wouldn't
be here to talk about it.
When territories are invaded
by new predators and the existing population has no fear - it's quickly
exterminated. Dead as the do-do birds. Human and rats decimated the existing
fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, North and South America; and maybe responsible
for the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. Our big social creatures
are unlikely to survive this sudden change in the social ecology.
Handy's "
The Age of Unreason"
is a guide to flexible and small within bigger systems.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
Citrix Corp. has produced
WINFRAME Visit Glendon College of
York University (CA) (wfwin32.exe) Glendon
College at http://arianne.glendon.yorku.ca/
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
![[DIR]](/images/dir.gif)
Parent Directory GEOCITIES
GO HERE FIRST
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NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the orginal long form
Directory of the
LOGOS Technology site
100's of documents
List of the site
on Technology
Guide for newbies and news of the internet
newbie in plain.txt
Starrt of the network
AD
The first group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like
Open-me is the second page
Register as
beta tester
The synergy files/ and subfiles:
visions of blue sky futures
main http files incluse logos and
current case discussion and activities
LOGOS/ meaning and policy
current discussions and documents
examples of http
/documents/pathos/ feelings and
sufi
intro to groups
ethos/ education and ethics
Dazey_Network/
psychology Files
SEE the news including tips
on hypertext, the future of inactive education, and lots of goods references
and ideas on the NEWS PAGE THE LAST FIRST
Page from last week. What
we do here is explore, using interaction and cooperation.
Directions to the NEWS and
Synergy Network PAGES
Each week or so, the comments,
ideas and suggestions on the FIRST page become the NEWS page. the last
NEWS page becomes doc5.htm, the doc4.htm, etc.
THE NEWS
PAGE Last Week
PAGE FOUR
PAGE THREE
PAGE TWO
The New
Newbie Page
- a good start on the
internet
setup for group styles
NEW FLASH of today Monday, April
22, 1996 8:02:36 AM
RE: Get Netscape Atlas Preview, Cool Talk, it works and Live 3D
See /Newbie.htm for information on the internet
also internet news .
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JOURNAL of Futures life
At 09:44 PM 4/27/96 EDT, Alan
Dennis wrote:
We have developed an Internet
groupware system (URL below) and I would appreciate talking with you
about the services you offer.
Alan
Alan Dennis Associate Professor
of MIS Phone: 706-542-3902 Department of Management Home: 706-613-7807
Terry College of Business Fax: 706-542-3743 University of Georgia Internet:
adennis@uga.cc.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602 USA
WWW Home Page: http://www.cba.uga.edu/faculty/alan.html Groupware
Central: http://www.cba.uga.edu/groupware/groupware.html Free
Web-Based Groupware: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080
Telecom Textbook: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080/~adennis/home.htm
RE: Free Markets, down-sizing,
evolutionary ecology and bio- diversity
The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
I am suggesting a million
small schools (learning centers, see charter.htm on the synergy site),
which like small primitive mammals in the age of dinosaurs can evolve into
conscious homo sapiens. People in these centers will learn new things in
new ways, as in the Neolithic age, modern people had the "catch-on" factor
and quick replaced prior models. Those that "learn to learn" will be the
survivors and the creators of tomorrow. Small is better because of biological
history and the physics of complex systems. ( See http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4333/First.htm.)
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
Our ideas, conscious and un-conscious,
of ourselves and our social institutions have been heavily influenced by
science and religion. Scientific theory becomes a popular allegory or mythology
explaining to ourselves who we are and how we "should" behave.
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
Perhaps the best way of getting
a handle on the new thinking is the phase about sailing and war " Long
periods of boredom, punctuated by short moments of pure terror." Most of
the time activities settle down and achieve a mature dynamic state, with
big fluctuations due to the counter-intuitive interactions in complex systems.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
RE: Design with Nature: Social-biology
in the classroom
NOW you know why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five below by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. What are you
afraid of ?
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
THE PRINCIPLES of SOCIAL-BIOLOGY
- design with nature:
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
ONE:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
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The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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1.
The interaction of two or more
agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum
of their individual effects.
2. Cooperative interaction among
groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a
corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect. .
[From Greek sunergia, cooperation,
from sunergos, working together. SYNERGISM.]
A Starrting
Point on Life Long Learning
How this site works:
The article
from Friday, May 10, 1996 9:40:31 AM see mother.txt and welfare.txt for
"Small Schools and teen age mothers" "Charter schools", randayn for Ayn
Rand and the new right, biod.txt for biodiversity, downsizing and the Internet
( BELOW ) and they are put on as seauton.txt, mother.txt, welfare.txt,
charter.txt etc.
Project on the internet Market
services
Yes, we agree, Kevin is getting
the server up by May 15th and will have workgroups with Netbios going -
he is very good and the system will be interactive like a real LANs. What
we need is Beta
testers with windows 95 and enough "smarts" to be in a test workgroup
- starting very soon.
RE:
The world is not impartial,
unbiased or equitable:
Thomas Jefferson, in a apogee
of political rhetoric, was objectively wrong when he wrote in the most
important political document of modern history; "/de hold these truth to
be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." As the Founding Fathers knew,
the power of the state is a constantly shifting balance of power between
individual interest, collective interests, and conflicts of interest. Rights
are gained in struggle, enforced in courts, political struggle, with the
barrow of a musket and maintained by vigorous and constant vigilance.
http://docs.whitehouse.gov/white-house-publications/1997/01/1997-01-20-presidents-inaugural-address.text
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate
Release January 20, 1997
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
U.S. Capitol
12:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:
My fellow citizens:
" At this last presidential
inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges
that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time
and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new
millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs --
a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to
come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient
vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.
The promise of America was
born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created
equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation
spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge
of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph,
that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
And what a century it has
been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power; saved the
world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and
again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for
the blessings of liberty. ......
america demands and deserves
big things from us -- and nothing big ever came from being small. (Applause.)
Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing
the end of his own life. He said: "It is wrong to waste the precious gift
of time, on acrimony and division."
Fellow citizens, we must not
waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same JOURney
of our lives, and our JOURney, too, will come to an end. But the JOURney
of our America must go on.
And so, my fellow Americans,
we must be strong, for there is much to dare.
The demands of our time are
great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage,
with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of
this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our
bridge. (Applause.) A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American
to cross over to a blessed land of new promise. "
President William Jefferson
Clinton was also technically wrong in his cryptic political rhetoric yesterday.
The "map is not the territory", and language is not action, dreams are
not policy, hope is not accomplishment.
There is no objective reality to
the symbols of hope, dreams, ideals, faith, and love. We live in a cold
indifferent universe, there is not an friendly spirit that rewards good
and punishes evil, nothing outside our social system protects us and cares
about our welfare.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The fault of atheist and logical
positivism is that impartial reality is not all that is important. Subjective
reality, emotional attachments, empathy, belief, faith, hope and charity
are also critical, all is not science and engineering.
There is a clear
reality to "vision" of new promise, unity, social values, peace, justice
and prosperity.
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SYNERGY-NET New Information in
a new way, an interactive classroom on the WWW. For those who are new here
- or don't understand what is going on.. here are the themes that are developed
in many ways.
If you really want to "break"
the mold and try something a little more interesting than Covey check out
program developed on the SYNERGY-NET.
We will cut and paste for
any group - make it simple - difficult etc. We use nominal group process
to help set goals in the beginning and break up into groups on the base
of styles of personality. It is then a free form depending on the group
dynamics. I don't believe in keeping to an agenda but go with the flow.
The method is the message and we do what we say - liberty ( less government
more freedom ) means less set goals and methods and process. TWO equality
means the people have a lot to contribute and should be able to have a
big voice in what they do - and how they do it - and third real groups
with real power of choice.
RE: Three to five day DYNAMIC
SYNERGY workshops
RE: Plan Ahead......but look
out: hold hands, group-ware is the base of a vast social revolution. Two
models of social technology:
The old dying territorial structured bureaucracies
and new un-tied, transient, flexible, task-force, collaborate work groups.
Our site is a test bed for the new world order.
NOTE: go to http://www.altavista.digi
tal.com then http://www.digita
l.com:80/info/home.html and take a look at Digital's plans for the
Internet. If you have Netscape 2 or Atlas with Hot Java their presentation
is very innovative. ( Was there yesterday but gone today ?) OH here it
is ! http://www.alt
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Mother's DAY: Our mothers
told us polite lies. Do this, or avoid that and it will work out.
The world
we expected didn't happen. We need, want, and hope for a more sensible
secure world than we got. Downsizing, instability, change is happening
all around us, and most of us don't like it and can't cope.
The interactive web is happening
even faster than I thought. Most of our social institutions, habits, economy,
global perspective, are changing. Change, is as in the Chinese character,
made from danger inside an opportunity.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
RE: First Synergy Symposium:
The WWW as a life form;
Categories for the filing
system: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.
Our domain hardware is in
place, the phone lines connected and we are attaching our node to the next
level provider to the Internet backbone. I am designing the seminar interface
using evolutionary biology as a paradigm. I have come up with these topic
areas, that will become part of the file management systems. I would really
like your ideas.
The Categories below become
part of the on-going open forum that is the Synergy
Network .
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
Synergy
Network is the global village square and the Internet forum. Here we
met Plato, who following his sufi teacher Socrates, discussed with the
Sophists the existence of the unchanging and invisible God. A spirit who
in many forms visits us in the dreamtime. From these visions or ideas,
is the certain knowledge which is the foundation of all law and values,
traditions and customs and a good life. He came to believe that since we
live by illusions, anyway, and somethings will always be a mystery, are
in fact unknowable: we should have good, beautiful dreams of an objective
truth. A tree we will know by its' fruit, the juice of the grape by the
wine.
Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:
Before the Cambrian extinction
( 450 million years ago ) there were hundreds of basic body designs. Only
a few dozen survived, one of which was one using internal bones and tubes,
becoming fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.
The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications protocols,
the web structure, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, and the way we connect and how fast.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
Regulation and legislation
are part of the body styles issues.
Body Structure: Hard Ware
and Soft Ware: Providers, servers, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, phone and cable lines, wireless,
satellite, cell phones, backbones - shape the body style of the Internet.
Body Parts:
I-phone, chat, VDO, Http,
the grammar of communications is the nervous system.
The lines are the
blood circulation.
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The Forum: Winframe, the conference
programs: maybe should be part of:
Area two: COMMUNITIES:
Ecological communities are
complex dynamic systems that have many counter-intuitive relationships.
For example, the role of the matrical elephant in the group, provides memory,
experience and leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use
of soil minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support predators,
on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not simply the "survival"
of the fittest but how communities fit into the complex and often unstable
dynamics of whole systems.
Communities and interfaces:
The food chain; Who is eating whom in
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
Search: AltaVista, Yahoo,
and the other search engines form connections between communities of web
pages.
Message transfer: http - editors
- ftp - chat - Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.
Storage and filing: Access,
data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of saving and finding
materials.
On-line services: Compuserve,
America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time Warner, NBC -
Nodes and Niches:
The media
and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs
-
Digital on Netscape Community
systems that promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other Applications.
Area three: DYNAMICS of change:
What is done by whom and how:
The history of evolutionary biology is long periods of boredom and short
periods of terror and mass extinctions.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
Complex systems have counter-intuitive
interactions ( Blau and Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial
dynamics, Senge in Organizational Learning ) Starr fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls, sea turtles,
have second and third and fourth repercussions in dynamic communities.
Netscape and mosaic is an
example of dynamic shifts in the ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer
systems tied to providers is another.
Public Schools are the most
resistant to change of any of our major institutions.
They do the talk
be don't take the walk. Nothing really has changed except a steady decline
in standards.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
Awareness of possible futures
causes the fear of change or hope for a better world; Every action has
a reaction.
Ritual, fear of change, group-think,
are the natural reaction to concerns about the future. Because we are aware
of ourselves we become self-conscious. Because we are dependent on a social
system we become concerned with ambiguity of these affiliations and need
to fit in, share the collective illusions.
The origins of the species maybe
more than an allegory of the ecology of dynamic systems. Stephen Jay Gould
and Edward O. Wilson (
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
For more on the extinctions
see: http://www.well.co
m/user/elin/mstry.htm from Elin Whitney-Smith elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/eli
n
Somewhere about 10,000 years
ago one group of the few million humans became fearful and hopeful. Among
the life of the "Beasts" life can be uncertain. Predication, starvation,
uncertainty is a daily fact of life. Who will eat whom today in the Wild
Kingdom ? But do they worry ?
They are aware of danger, or they don't survive.
But conscious worries about things that " might happen " are human concerns.
All the things our mothers worried about that didn't happen or we wouldn't
be here to talk about it.
When territories are invaded
by new predators and the existing population has no fear - it's quickly
exterminated. Dead as the do-do birds. Human and rats decimated the existing
fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, North and South America; and maybe responsible
for the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. Our big social creatures
are unlikely to survive this sudden change in the social ecology.
Handy's "
The Age of Unreason"
is a guide to flexible and small within bigger systems.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
Citrix Corp. has produced
WINFRAME Visit Glendon College of
York University (CA) (wfwin32.exe) Glendon
College at http://arianne.glendon.yorku.ca/
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
Parent Directory GEOCITIES
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the orginal long form
Directory of the
LOGOS Technology site
100's of documents
List of the site
on Technology
Guide for newbies and news of the internet
newbie in plain.txt
Starrt of the network
AD
The first group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like
Open-me is the second page
Register as
beta tester
The synergy files/ and subfiles:
visions of blue sky futures
main http files incluse logos and
current case discussion and activities
LOGOS/ meaning and policy
current discussions and documents
examples of http
/documents/pathos/ feelings and
sufi
intro to groups
ethos/ education and ethics
Dazey_Network/
psychology Files
SEE the news including tips
on hypertext, the future of inactive education, and lots of goods references
and ideas on the NEWS PAGE THE LAST FIRST
Page from last week. What
we do here is explore, using interaction and cooperation.
Directions to the NEWS and
Synergy Network PAGES
Each week or so, the comments,
ideas and suggestions on the FIRST page become the NEWS page. the last
NEWS page becomes doc5.htm, the doc4.htm, etc.
THE NEWS
PAGE Last Week
PAGE FOUR
PAGE THREE
PAGE TWO
The New
Newbie Page
- a good start on the
internet
setup for group styles
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22, 1996 8:02:36 AM
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JOURNAL of Futures life
At 09:44 PM 4/27/96 EDT, Alan
Dennis wrote:
We have developed an Internet
groupware system (URL below) and I would appreciate talking with you
about the services you offer.
Alan
Alan Dennis Associate Professor
of MIS Phone: 706-542-3902 Department of Management Home: 706-613-7807
Terry College of Business Fax: 706-542-3743 University of Georgia Internet:
adennis@uga.cc.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602 USA
WWW Home Page: http://www.cba.uga.edu/faculty/alan.html Groupware
Central: http://www.cba.uga.edu/groupware/groupware.html Free
Web-Based Groupware: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080
Telecom Textbook: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080/~adennis/home.htm
RE: Free Markets, down-sizing,
evolutionary ecology and bio- diversity
The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
I am suggesting a million
small schools (learning centers, see charter.htm on the synergy site),
which like small primitive mammals in the age of dinosaurs can evolve into
conscious homo sapiens. People in these centers will learn new things in
new ways, as in the Neolithic age, modern people had the "catch-on" factor
and quick replaced prior models. Those that "learn to learn" will be the
survivors and the creators of tomorrow. Small is better because of biological
history and the physics of complex systems. ( See http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4333/First.htm.)
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
Our ideas, conscious and un-conscious,
of ourselves and our social institutions have been heavily influenced by
science and religion. Scientific theory becomes a popular allegory or mythology
explaining to ourselves who we are and how we "should" behave.
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
Perhaps the best way of getting
a handle on the new thinking is the phase about sailing and war " Long
periods of boredom, punctuated by short moments of pure terror." Most of
the time activities settle down and achieve a mature dynamic state, with
big fluctuations due to the counter-intuitive interactions in complex systems.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
RE: Design with Nature: Social-biology
in the classroom
NOW you know why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five below by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. What are you
afraid of ?
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
THE PRINCIPLES of SOCIAL-BIOLOGY
- design with nature:
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
ONE:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
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The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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A Starrting
Point on Life Long Learning
How this site works:
The article
from Friday, May 10, 1996 9:40:31 AM see mother.txt and welfare.txt for
"Small Schools and teen age mothers" "Charter schools", randayn for Ayn
Rand and the new right, biod.txt for biodiversity, downsizing and the Internet
( BELOW ) and they are put on as seauton.txt, mother.txt, welfare.txt,
charter.txt etc.
Project on the internet Market
services
Yes, we agree, Kevin is getting
the server up by May 15th and will have workgroups with Netbios going -
he is very good and the system will be interactive like a real LANs. What
we need is Beta
testers with windows 95 and enough "smarts" to be in a test workgroup
- starting very soon.
RE:
The world is not impartial,
unbiased or equitable:
Thomas Jefferson, in a apogee
of political rhetoric, was objectively wrong when he wrote in the most
important political document of modern history; "/de hold these truth to
be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." As the Founding Fathers knew,
the power of the state is a constantly shifting balance of power between
individual interest, collective interests, and conflicts of interest. Rights
are gained in struggle, enforced in courts, political struggle, with the
barrow of a musket and maintained by vigorous and constant vigilance.
http://docs.whitehouse.gov/white-house-publications/1997/01/1997-01-20-presidents-inaugural-address.text
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate
Release January 20, 1997
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
U.S. Capitol
12:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:
My fellow citizens:
" At this last presidential
inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges
that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time
and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new
millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs --
a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to
come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient
vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.
The promise of America was
born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created
equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation
spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge
of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph,
that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
And what a century it has
been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power; saved the
world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and
again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for
the blessings of liberty. ......
america demands and deserves
big things from us -- and nothing big ever came from being small. (Applause.)
Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing
the end of his own life. He said: "It is wrong to waste the precious gift
of time, on acrimony and division."
Fellow citizens, we must not
waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same JOURney
of our lives, and our JOURney, too, will come to an end. But the JOURney
of our America must go on.
And so, my fellow Americans,
we must be strong, for there is much to dare.
The demands of our time are
great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage,
with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of
this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our
bridge. (Applause.) A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American
to cross over to a blessed land of new promise. "
President William Jefferson
Clinton was also technically wrong in his cryptic political rhetoric yesterday.
The "map is not the territory", and language is not action, dreams are
not policy, hope is not accomplishment.
There is no objective reality to
the symbols of hope, dreams, ideals, faith, and love. We live in a cold
indifferent universe, there is not an friendly spirit that rewards good
and punishes evil, nothing outside our social system protects us and cares
about our welfare.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The fault of atheist and logical
positivism is that impartial reality is not all that is important. Subjective
reality, emotional attachments, empathy, belief, faith, hope and charity
are also critical, all is not science and engineering.
There is a clear
reality to "vision" of new promise, unity, social values, peace, justice
and prosperity.
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SYNERGY-NET New Information in
a new way, an interactive classroom on the WWW. For those who are new here
- or don't understand what is going on.. here are the themes that are developed
in many ways.
If you really want to "break"
the mold and try something a little more interesting than Covey check out
program developed on the SYNERGY-NET.
We will cut and paste for
any group - make it simple - difficult etc. We use nominal group process
to help set goals in the beginning and break up into groups on the base
of styles of personality. It is then a free form depending on the group
dynamics. I don't believe in keeping to an agenda but go with the flow.
The method is the message and we do what we say - liberty ( less government
more freedom ) means less set goals and methods and process. TWO equality
means the people have a lot to contribute and should be able to have a
big voice in what they do - and how they do it - and third real groups
with real power of choice.
RE: Three to five day DYNAMIC
SYNERGY workshops
RE: Plan Ahead......but look
out: hold hands, group-ware is the base of a vast social revolution. Two
models of social technology:
The old dying territorial structured bureaucracies
and new un-tied, transient, flexible, task-force, collaborate work groups.
Our site is a test bed for the new world order.
NOTE: go to http://www.altavista.digi
tal.com then http://www.digita
l.com:80/info/home.html and take a look at Digital's plans for the
Internet. If you have Netscape 2 or Atlas with Hot Java their presentation
is very innovative. ( Was there yesterday but gone today ?) OH here it
is ! http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
Mother's DAY: Our mothers
told us polite lies. Do this, or avoid that and it will work out.
The world
we expected didn't happen. We need, want, and hope for a more sensible
secure world than we got. Downsizing, instability, change is happening
all around us, and most of us don't like it and can't cope.
The interactive web is happening
even faster than I thought. Most of our social institutions, habits, economy,
global perspective, are changing. Change, is as in the Chinese character,
made from danger inside an opportunity.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
RE: First Synergy Symposium:
The WWW as a life form;
Categories for the filing
system: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.
Our domain hardware is in
place, the phone lines connected and we are attaching our node to the next
level provider to the Internet backbone. I am designing the seminar interface
using evolutionary biology as a paradigm. I have come up with these topic
areas, that will become part of the file management systems. I would really
like your ideas.
The Categories below become
part of the on-going open forum that is the Synergy
Network .
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
Synergy
Network is the global village square and the Internet forum. Here we
met Plato, who following his sufi teacher Socrates, discussed with the
Sophists the existence of the unchanging and invisible God. A spirit who
in many forms visits us in the dreamtime. From these visions or ideas,
is the certain knowledge which is the foundation of all law and values,
traditions and customs and a good life. He came to believe that since we
live by illusions, anyway, and somethings will always be a mystery, are
in fact unknowable: we should have good, beautiful dreams of an objective
truth. A tree we will know by its' fruit, the juice of the grape by the
wine.
Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:
Before the Cambrian extinction
( 450 million years ago ) there were hundreds of basic body designs. Only
a few dozen survived, one of which was one using internal bones and tubes,
becoming fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.
The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications protocols,
the web structure, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, and the way we connect and how fast.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
Regulation and legislation
are part of the body styles issues.
Body Structure: Hard Ware
and Soft Ware: Providers, servers, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, phone and cable lines, wireless,
satellite, cell phones, backbones - shape the body style of the Internet.
Body Parts:
I-phone, chat, VDO, Http,
the grammar of communications is the nervous system.
The lines are the
blood circulation.
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The Forum: Winframe, the conference
programs: maybe should be part of:
Area two: COMMUNITIES:
Ecological communities are
complex dynamic systems that have many counter-intuitive relationships.
For example, the role of the matrical elephant in the group, provides memory,
experience and leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use
of soil minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support predators,
on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not simply the "survival"
of the fittest but how communities fit into the complex and often unstable
dynamics of whole systems.
Communities and interfaces:
The food chain; Who is eating whom in
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
Search: AltaVista, Yahoo,
and the other search engines form connections between communities of web
pages.
Message transfer: http - editors
- ftp - chat - Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.
Storage and filing: Access,
data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of saving and finding
materials.
On-line services: Compuserve,
America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time Warner, NBC -
Nodes and Niches:
The media
and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs
-
Digital on Netscape Community
systems that promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other Applications.
Area three: DYNAMICS of change:
What is done by whom and how:
The history of evolutionary biology is long periods of boredom and short
periods of terror and mass extinctions.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
Complex systems have counter-intuitive
interactions ( Blau and Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial
dynamics, Senge in Organizational Learning ) Starr fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls, sea turtles,
have second and third and fourth repercussions in dynamic communities.
Netscape and mosaic is an
example of dynamic shifts in the ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer
systems tied to providers is another.
Public Schools are the most
resistant to change of any of our major institutions.
They do the talk
be don't take the walk. Nothing really has changed except a steady decline
in standards.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
Awareness of possible futures
causes the fear of change or hope for a better world; Every action has
a reaction.
Ritual, fear of change, group-think,
are the natural reaction to concerns about the future. Because we are aware
of ourselves we become self-conscious. Because we are dependent on a social
system we become concerned with ambiguity of these affiliations and need
to fit in, share the collective illusions.
The origins of the species maybe
more than an allegory of the ecology of dynamic systems. Stephen Jay Gould
and Edward O. Wilson (
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
For more on the extinctions
see: http://www.well.co
m/user/elin/mstry.htm from Elin Whitney-Smith elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/eli
n
Somewhere about 10,000 years
ago one group of the few million humans became fearful and hopeful. Among
the life of the "Beasts" life can be uncertain. Predication, starvation,
uncertainty is a daily fact of life. Who will eat whom today in the Wild
Kingdom ? But do they worry ?
They are aware of danger, or they don't survive.
But conscious worries about things that " might happen " are human concerns.
All the things our mothers worried about that didn't happen or we wouldn't
be here to talk about it.
When territories are invaded
by new predators and the existing population has no fear - it's quickly
exterminated. Dead as the do-do birds. Human and rats decimated the existing
fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, North and South America; and maybe responsible
for the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. Our big social creatures
are unlikely to survive this sudden change in the social ecology.
Handy's "
The Age of Unreason"
is a guide to flexible and small within bigger systems.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
Citrix Corp. has produced
WINFRAME Visit Glendon College of
York University (CA) (wfwin32.exe) Glendon
College at http://arianne.glendon.yorku.ca/
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
Parent Directory GEOCITIES
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the orginal long form
Directory of the
LOGOS Technology site
100's of documents
List of the site
on Technology
Guide for newbies and news of the internet
newbie in plain.txt
Starrt of the network
AD
The first group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like
Open-me is the second page
Register as
beta tester
The synergy files/ and subfiles:
visions of blue sky futures
main http files incluse logos and
current case discussion and activities
LOGOS/ meaning and policy
current discussions and documents
examples of http
/documents/pathos/ feelings and
sufi
intro to groups
ethos/ education and ethics
Dazey_Network/
psychology Files
SEE the news including tips
on hypertext, the future of inactive education, and lots of goods references
and ideas on the NEWS PAGE THE LAST FIRST
Page from last week. What
we do here is explore, using interaction and cooperation.
Directions to the NEWS and
Synergy Network PAGES
Each week or so, the comments,
ideas and suggestions on the FIRST page become the NEWS page. the last
NEWS page becomes doc5.htm, the doc4.htm, etc.
THE NEWS
PAGE Last Week
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PAGE THREE
PAGE TWO
The New
Newbie Page
- a good start on the
internet
setup for group styles
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22, 1996 8:02:36 AM
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JOURNAL of Futures life
At 09:44 PM 4/27/96 EDT, Alan
Dennis wrote:
We have developed an Internet
groupware system (URL below) and I would appreciate talking with you
about the services you offer.
Alan
Alan Dennis Associate Professor
of MIS Phone: 706-542-3902 Department of Management Home: 706-613-7807
Terry College of Business Fax: 706-542-3743 University of Georgia Internet:
adennis@uga.cc.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602 USA
WWW Home Page: http://www.cba.uga.edu/faculty/alan.html Groupware
Central: http://www.cba.uga.edu/groupware/groupware.html Free
Web-Based Groupware: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080
Telecom Textbook: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080/~adennis/home.htm
RE: Free Markets, down-sizing,
evolutionary ecology and bio- diversity
The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
I am suggesting a million
small schools (learning centers, see charter.htm on the synergy site),
which like small primitive mammals in the age of dinosaurs can evolve into
conscious homo sapiens. People in these centers will learn new things in
new ways, as in the Neolithic age, modern people had the "catch-on" factor
and quick replaced prior models. Those that "learn to learn" will be the
survivors and the creators of tomorrow. Small is better because of biological
history and the physics of complex systems. ( See http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4333/First.htm.)
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
Our ideas, conscious and un-conscious,
of ourselves and our social institutions have been heavily influenced by
science and religion. Scientific theory becomes a popular allegory or mythology
explaining to ourselves who we are and how we "should" behave.
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
Perhaps the best way of getting
a handle on the new thinking is the phase about sailing and war " Long
periods of boredom, punctuated by short moments of pure terror." Most of
the time activities settle down and achieve a mature dynamic state, with
big fluctuations due to the counter-intuitive interactions in complex systems.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
RE: Design with Nature: Social-biology
in the classroom
NOW you know why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five below by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. What are you
afraid of ?
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
THE PRINCIPLES of SOCIAL-BIOLOGY
- design with nature:
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
ONE:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
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The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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A Starrting
Point on Life Long Learning
How this site works:
The article
from Friday, May 10, 1996 9:40:31 AM see mother.txt and welfare.txt for
"Small Schools and teen age mothers" "Charter schools", randayn for Ayn
Rand and the new right, biod.txt for biodiversity, downsizing and the Internet
( BELOW ) and they are put on as seauton.txt, mother.txt, welfare.txt,
charter.txt etc.
Project on the internet Market
services
Yes, we agree, Kevin is getting
the server up by May 15th and will have workgroups with Netbios going -
he is very good and the system will be interactive like a real LANs. What
we need is Beta
testers with windows 95 and enough "smarts" to be in a test workgroup
- starting very soon.
RE:
The world is not impartial,
unbiased or equitable:
Thomas Jefferson, in a apogee
of political rhetoric, was objectively wrong when he wrote in the most
important political document of modern history; "/de hold these truth to
be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." As the Founding Fathers knew,
the power of the state is a constantly shifting balance of power between
individual interest, collective interests, and conflicts of interest. Rights
are gained in struggle, enforced in courts, political struggle, with the
barrow of a musket and maintained by vigorous and constant vigilance.
http://docs.whitehouse.gov/white-house-publications/1997/01/1997-01-20-presidents-inaugural-address.text
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate
Release January 20, 1997
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
U.S. Capitol
12:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:
My fellow citizens:
" At this last presidential
inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges
that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time
and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new
millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs --
a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to
come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient
vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.
The promise of America was
born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created
equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation
spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge
of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph,
that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
And what a century it has
been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power; saved the
world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and
again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for
the blessings of liberty. ......
america demands and deserves
big things from us -- and nothing big ever came from being small. (Applause.)
Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing
the end of his own life. He said: "It is wrong to waste the precious gift
of time, on acrimony and division."
Fellow citizens, we must not
waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same JOURney
of our lives, and our JOURney, too, will come to an end. But the JOURney
of our America must go on.
And so, my fellow Americans,
we must be strong, for there is much to dare.
The demands of our time are
great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage,
with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of
this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our
bridge. (Applause.) A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American
to cross over to a blessed land of new promise. "
President William Jefferson
Clinton was also technically wrong in his cryptic political rhetoric yesterday.
The "map is not the territory", and language is not action, dreams are
not policy, hope is not accomplishment.
There is no objective reality to
the symbols of hope, dreams, ideals, faith, and love. We live in a cold
indifferent universe, there is not an friendly spirit that rewards good
and punishes evil, nothing outside our social system protects us and cares
about our welfare.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The fault of atheist and logical
positivism is that impartial reality is not all that is important. Subjective
reality, emotional attachments, empathy, belief, faith, hope and charity
are also critical, all is not science and engineering.
There is a clear
reality to "vision" of new promise, unity, social values, peace, justice
and prosperity.
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SYNERGY-NET New Information in
a new way, an interactive classroom on the WWW. For those who are new here
- or don't understand what is going on.. here are the themes that are developed
in many ways.
If you really want to "break"
the mold and try something a little more interesting than Covey check out
program developed on the SYNERGY-NET.
We will cut and paste for
any group - make it simple - difficult etc. We use nominal group process
to help set goals in the beginning and break up into groups on the base
of styles of personality. It is then a free form depending on the group
dynamics. I don't believe in keeping to an agenda but go with the flow.
The method is the message and we do what we say - liberty ( less government
more freedom ) means less set goals and methods and process. TWO equality
means the people have a lot to contribute and should be able to have a
big voice in what they do - and how they do it - and third real groups
with real power of choice.
RE: Three to five day DYNAMIC
SYNERGY workshops
RE: Plan Ahead......but look
out: hold hands, group-ware is the base of a vast social revolution. Two
models of social technology:
The old dying territorial structured bureaucracies
and new un-tied, transient, flexible, task-force, collaborate work groups.
Our site is a test bed for the new world order.
NOTE: go to http://www.altavista.digi
tal.com then http://www.digita
l.com:80/info/home.html and take a look at Digital's plans for the
Internet. If you have Netscape 2 or Atlas with Hot Java their presentation
is very innovative. ( Was there yesterday but gone today ?) OH here it
is ! http://www.alt
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Mother's DAY: Our mothers
told us polite lies. Do this, or avoid that and it will work out.
The world
we expected didn't happen. We need, want, and hope for a more sensible
secure world than we got. Downsizing, instability, change is happening
all around us, and most of us don't like it and can't cope.
The interactive web is happening
even faster than I thought. Most of our social institutions, habits, economy,
global perspective, are changing. Change, is as in the Chinese character,
made from danger inside an opportunity.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
RE: First Synergy Symposium:
The WWW as a life form;
Categories for the filing
system: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.
Our domain hardware is in
place, the phone lines connected and we are attaching our node to the next
level provider to the Internet backbone. I am designing the seminar interface
using evolutionary biology as a paradigm. I have come up with these topic
areas, that will become part of the file management systems. I would really
like your ideas.
The Categories below become
part of the on-going open forum that is the Synergy
Network .
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
Synergy
Network is the global village square and the Internet forum. Here we
met Plato, who following his sufi teacher Socrates, discussed with the
Sophists the existence of the unchanging and invisible God. A spirit who
in many forms visits us in the dreamtime. From these visions or ideas,
is the certain knowledge which is the foundation of all law and values,
traditions and customs and a good life. He came to believe that since we
live by illusions, anyway, and somethings will always be a mystery, are
in fact unknowable: we should have good, beautiful dreams of an objective
truth. A tree we will know by its' fruit, the juice of the grape by the
wine.
Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:
Before the Cambrian extinction
( 450 million years ago ) there were hundreds of basic body designs. Only
a few dozen survived, one of which was one using internal bones and tubes,
becoming fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.
The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications protocols,
the web structure, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, and the way we connect and how fast.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
Regulation and legislation
are part of the body styles issues.
Body Structure: Hard Ware
and Soft Ware: Providers, servers, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, phone and cable lines, wireless,
satellite, cell phones, backbones - shape the body style of the Internet.
Body Parts:
I-phone, chat, VDO, Http,
the grammar of communications is the nervous system.
The lines are the
blood circulation.
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The Forum: Winframe, the conference
programs: maybe should be part of:
Area two: COMMUNITIES:
Ecological communities are
complex dynamic systems that have many counter-intuitive relationships.
For example, the role of the matrical elephant in the group, provides memory,
experience and leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use
of soil minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support predators,
on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not simply the "survival"
of the fittest but how communities fit into the complex and often unstable
dynamics of whole systems.
Communities and interfaces:
The food chain; Who is eating whom in
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
Search: AltaVista, Yahoo,
and the other search engines form connections between communities of web
pages.
Message transfer: http - editors
- ftp - chat - Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.
Storage and filing: Access,
data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of saving and finding
materials.
On-line services: Compuserve,
America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time Warner, NBC -
Nodes and Niches:
The media
and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs
-
Digital on Netscape Community
systems that promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other Applications.
Area three: DYNAMICS of change:
What is done by whom and how:
The history of evolutionary biology is long periods of boredom and short
periods of terror and mass extinctions.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
Complex systems have counter-intuitive
interactions ( Blau and Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial
dynamics, Senge in Organizational Learning ) Starr fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls, sea turtles,
have second and third and fourth repercussions in dynamic communities.
Netscape and mosaic is an
example of dynamic shifts in the ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer
systems tied to providers is another.
Public Schools are the most
resistant to change of any of our major institutions.
They do the talk
be don't take the walk. Nothing really has changed except a steady decline
in standards.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
Awareness of possible futures
causes the fear of change or hope for a better world; Every action has
a reaction.
Ritual, fear of change, group-think,
are the natural reaction to concerns about the future. Because we are aware
of ourselves we become self-conscious. Because we are dependent on a social
system we become concerned with ambiguity of these affiliations and need
to fit in, share the collective illusions.
The origins of the species maybe
more than an allegory of the ecology of dynamic systems. Stephen Jay Gould
and Edward O. Wilson (
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
For more on the extinctions
see: http://www.well.co
m/user/elin/mstry.htm from Elin Whitney-Smith elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/eli
n
Somewhere about 10,000 years
ago one group of the few million humans became fearful and hopeful. Among
the life of the "Beasts" life can be uncertain. Predication, starvation,
uncertainty is a daily fact of life. Who will eat whom today in the Wild
Kingdom ? But do they worry ?
They are aware of danger, or they don't survive.
But conscious worries about things that " might happen " are human concerns.
All the things our mothers worried about that didn't happen or we wouldn't
be here to talk about it.
When territories are invaded
by new predators and the existing population has no fear - it's quickly
exterminated. Dead as the do-do birds. Human and rats decimated the existing
fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, North and South America; and maybe responsible
for the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. Our big social creatures
are unlikely to survive this sudden change in the social ecology.
Handy's "
The Age of Unreason"
is a guide to flexible and small within bigger systems.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
Citrix Corp. has produced
WINFRAME Visit Glendon College of
York University (CA) (wfwin32.exe) Glendon
College at http://arianne.glendon.yorku.ca/
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
Parent Directory GEOCITIES
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the orginal long form
Directory of the
LOGOS Technology site
100's of documents
List of the site
on Technology
Guide for newbies and news of the internet
newbie in plain.txt
Starrt of the network
AD
The first group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like
Open-me is the second page
Register as
beta tester
The synergy files/ and subfiles:
visions of blue sky futures
main http files incluse logos and
current case discussion and activities
LOGOS/ meaning and policy
current discussions and documents
examples of http
/documents/pathos/ feelings and
sufi
intro to groups
ethos/ education and ethics
Dazey_Network/
psychology Files
SEE the news including tips
on hypertext, the future of inactive education, and lots of goods references
and ideas on the NEWS PAGE THE LAST FIRST
Page from last week. What
we do here is explore, using interaction and cooperation.
Directions to the NEWS and
Synergy Network PAGES
Each week or so, the comments,
ideas and suggestions on the FIRST page become the NEWS page. the last
NEWS page becomes doc5.htm, the doc4.htm, etc.
THE NEWS
PAGE Last Week
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The New
Newbie Page
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internet
setup for group styles
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22, 1996 8:02:36 AM
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JOURNAL of Futures life
At 09:44 PM 4/27/96 EDT, Alan
Dennis wrote:
We have developed an Internet
groupware system (URL below) and I would appreciate talking with you
about the services you offer.
Alan
Alan Dennis Associate Professor
of MIS Phone: 706-542-3902 Department of Management Home: 706-613-7807
Terry College of Business Fax: 706-542-3743 University of Georgia Internet:
adennis@uga.cc.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602 USA
WWW Home Page: http://www.cba.uga.edu/faculty/alan.html Groupware
Central: http://www.cba.uga.edu/groupware/groupware.html Free
Web-Based Groupware: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080
Telecom Textbook: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080/~adennis/home.htm
RE: Free Markets, down-sizing,
evolutionary ecology and bio- diversity
The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
I am suggesting a million
small schools (learning centers, see charter.htm on the synergy site),
which like small primitive mammals in the age of dinosaurs can evolve into
conscious homo sapiens. People in these centers will learn new things in
new ways, as in the Neolithic age, modern people had the "catch-on" factor
and quick replaced prior models. Those that "learn to learn" will be the
survivors and the creators of tomorrow. Small is better because of biological
history and the physics of complex systems. ( See http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4333/First.htm.)
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
Our ideas, conscious and un-conscious,
of ourselves and our social institutions have been heavily influenced by
science and religion. Scientific theory becomes a popular allegory or mythology
explaining to ourselves who we are and how we "should" behave.
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
Perhaps the best way of getting
a handle on the new thinking is the phase about sailing and war " Long
periods of boredom, punctuated by short moments of pure terror." Most of
the time activities settle down and achieve a mature dynamic state, with
big fluctuations due to the counter-intuitive interactions in complex systems.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
RE: Design with Nature: Social-biology
in the classroom
NOW you know why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five below by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. What are you
afraid of ?
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
THE PRINCIPLES of SOCIAL-BIOLOGY
- design with nature:
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
ONE:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
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The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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from Friday, May 10, 1996 9:40:31 AM see mother.txt and welfare.txt for
"Small Schools and teen age mothers" "Charter schools", randayn for Ayn
Rand and the new right, biod.txt for biodiversity, downsizing and the Internet
( BELOW ) and they are put on as seauton.txt, mother.txt, welfare.txt,
charter.txt etc.
Project on the internet Market
services
Yes, we agree, Kevin is getting
the server up by May 15th and will have workgroups with Netbios going -
he is very good and the system will be interactive like a real LANs. What
we need is Beta
testers with windows 95 and enough "smarts" to be in a test workgroup
- starting very soon.
RE:
The world is not impartial,
unbiased or equitable:
Thomas Jefferson, in a apogee
of political rhetoric, was objectively wrong when he wrote in the most
important political document of modern history; "/de hold these truth to
be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." As the Founding Fathers knew,
the power of the state is a constantly shifting balance of power between
individual interest, collective interests, and conflicts of interest. Rights
are gained in struggle, enforced in courts, political struggle, with the
barrow of a musket and maintained by vigorous and constant vigilance.
http://docs.whitehouse.gov/white-house-publications/1997/01/1997-01-20-presidents-inaugural-address.text
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate
Release January 20, 1997
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
U.S. Capitol
12:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:
My fellow citizens:
" At this last presidential
inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges
that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time
and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new
millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs --
a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to
come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient
vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.
The promise of America was
born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created
equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation
spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge
of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph,
that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
And what a century it has
been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power; saved the
world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and
again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for
the blessings of liberty. ......
america demands and deserves
big things from us -- and nothing big ever came from being small. (Applause.)
Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing
the end of his own life. He said: "It is wrong to waste the precious gift
of time, on acrimony and division."
Fellow citizens, we must not
waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same JOURney
of our lives, and our JOURney, too, will come to an end. But the JOURney
of our America must go on.
And so, my fellow Americans,
we must be strong, for there is much to dare.
The demands of our time are
great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage,
with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of
this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our
bridge. (Applause.) A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American
to cross over to a blessed land of new promise. "
President William Jefferson
Clinton was also technically wrong in his cryptic political rhetoric yesterday.
The "map is not the territory", and language is not action, dreams are
not policy, hope is not accomplishment.
There is no objective reality to
the symbols of hope, dreams, ideals, faith, and love. We live in a cold
indifferent universe, there is not an friendly spirit that rewards good
and punishes evil, nothing outside our social system protects us and cares
about our welfare.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The fault of atheist and logical
positivism is that impartial reality is not all that is important. Subjective
reality, emotional attachments, empathy, belief, faith, hope and charity
are also critical, all is not science and engineering.
There is a clear
reality to "vision" of new promise, unity, social values, peace, justice
and prosperity.
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SYNERGY-NET New Information in
a new way, an interactive classroom on the WWW. For those who are new here
- or don't understand what is going on.. here are the themes that are developed
in many ways.
If you really want to "break"
the mold and try something a little more interesting than Covey check out
program developed on the SYNERGY-NET.
We will cut and paste for
any group - make it simple - difficult etc. We use nominal group process
to help set goals in the beginning and break up into groups on the base
of styles of personality. It is then a free form depending on the group
dynamics. I don't believe in keeping to an agenda but go with the flow.
The method is the message and we do what we say - liberty ( less government
more freedom ) means less set goals and methods and process. TWO equality
means the people have a lot to contribute and should be able to have a
big voice in what they do - and how they do it - and third real groups
with real power of choice.
RE: Three to five day DYNAMIC
SYNERGY workshops
RE: Plan Ahead......but look
out: hold hands, group-ware is the base of a vast social revolution. Two
models of social technology:
The old dying territorial structured bureaucracies
and new un-tied, transient, flexible, task-force, collaborate work groups.
Our site is a test bed for the new world order.
NOTE: go to http://www.altavista.digi
tal.com then http://www.digita
l.com:80/info/home.html and take a look at Digital's plans for the
Internet. If you have Netscape 2 or Atlas with Hot Java their presentation
is very innovative. ( Was there yesterday but gone today ?) OH here it
is ! http://www.alt
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Mother's DAY: Our mothers
told us polite lies. Do this, or avoid that and it will work out.
The world
we expected didn't happen. We need, want, and hope for a more sensible
secure world than we got. Downsizing, instability, change is happening
all around us, and most of us don't like it and can't cope.
The interactive web is happening
even faster than I thought. Most of our social institutions, habits, economy,
global perspective, are changing. Change, is as in the Chinese character,
made from danger inside an opportunity.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
RE: First Synergy Symposium:
The WWW as a life form;
Categories for the filing
system: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.
Our domain hardware is in
place, the phone lines connected and we are attaching our node to the next
level provider to the Internet backbone. I am designing the seminar interface
using evolutionary biology as a paradigm. I have come up with these topic
areas, that will become part of the file management systems. I would really
like your ideas.
The Categories below become
part of the on-going open forum that is the Synergy
Network .
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
Synergy
Network is the global village square and the Internet forum. Here we
met Plato, who following his sufi teacher Socrates, discussed with the
Sophists the existence of the unchanging and invisible God. A spirit who
in many forms visits us in the dreamtime. From these visions or ideas,
is the certain knowledge which is the foundation of all law and values,
traditions and customs and a good life. He came to believe that since we
live by illusions, anyway, and somethings will always be a mystery, are
in fact unknowable: we should have good, beautiful dreams of an objective
truth. A tree we will know by its' fruit, the juice of the grape by the
wine.
Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:
Before the Cambrian extinction
( 450 million years ago ) there were hundreds of basic body designs. Only
a few dozen survived, one of which was one using internal bones and tubes,
becoming fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.
The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications protocols,
the web structure, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, and the way we connect and how fast.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
Regulation and legislation
are part of the body styles issues.
Body Structure: Hard Ware
and Soft Ware: Providers, servers, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, phone and cable lines, wireless,
satellite, cell phones, backbones - shape the body style of the Internet.
Body Parts:
I-phone, chat, VDO, Http,
the grammar of communications is the nervous system.
The lines are the
blood circulation.
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The Forum: Winframe, the conference
programs: maybe should be part of:
Area two: COMMUNITIES:
Ecological communities are
complex dynamic systems that have many counter-intuitive relationships.
For example, the role of the matrical elephant in the group, provides memory,
experience and leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use
of soil minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support predators,
on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not simply the "survival"
of the fittest but how communities fit into the complex and often unstable
dynamics of whole systems.
Communities and interfaces:
The food chain; Who is eating whom in
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
Search: AltaVista, Yahoo,
and the other search engines form connections between communities of web
pages.
Message transfer: http - editors
- ftp - chat - Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.
Storage and filing: Access,
data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of saving and finding
materials.
On-line services: Compuserve,
America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time Warner, NBC -
Nodes and Niches:
The media
and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs
-
Digital on Netscape Community
systems that promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other Applications.
Area three: DYNAMICS of change:
What is done by whom and how:
The history of evolutionary biology is long periods of boredom and short
periods of terror and mass extinctions.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
Complex systems have counter-intuitive
interactions ( Blau and Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial
dynamics, Senge in Organizational Learning ) Starr fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls, sea turtles,
have second and third and fourth repercussions in dynamic communities.
Netscape and mosaic is an
example of dynamic shifts in the ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer
systems tied to providers is another.
Public Schools are the most
resistant to change of any of our major institutions.
They do the talk
be don't take the walk. Nothing really has changed except a steady decline
in standards.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
Awareness of possible futures
causes the fear of change or hope for a better world; Every action has
a reaction.
Ritual, fear of change, group-think,
are the natural reaction to concerns about the future. Because we are aware
of ourselves we become self-conscious. Because we are dependent on a social
system we become concerned with ambiguity of these affiliations and need
to fit in, share the collective illusions.
The origins of the species maybe
more than an allegory of the ecology of dynamic systems. Stephen Jay Gould
and Edward O. Wilson (
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
For more on the extinctions
see: http://www.well.co
m/user/elin/mstry.htm from Elin Whitney-Smith elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/eli
n
Somewhere about 10,000 years
ago one group of the few million humans became fearful and hopeful. Among
the life of the "Beasts" life can be uncertain. Predication, starvation,
uncertainty is a daily fact of life. Who will eat whom today in the Wild
Kingdom ? But do they worry ?
They are aware of danger, or they don't survive.
But conscious worries about things that " might happen " are human concerns.
All the things our mothers worried about that didn't happen or we wouldn't
be here to talk about it.
When territories are invaded
by new predators and the existing population has no fear - it's quickly
exterminated. Dead as the do-do birds. Human and rats decimated the existing
fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, North and South America; and maybe responsible
for the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. Our big social creatures
are unlikely to survive this sudden change in the social ecology.
Handy's "
The Age of Unreason"
is a guide to flexible and small within bigger systems.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
Citrix Corp. has produced
WINFRAME Visit Glendon College of
York University (CA) (wfwin32.exe) Glendon
College at http://arianne.glendon.yorku.ca/
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
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GO HERE FIRST
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FIRST page in the orginal long form
Directory of the
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Guide for newbies and news of the internet
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and ideas on the NEWS PAGE THE LAST FIRST
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Directions to the NEWS and
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Each week or so, the comments,
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JOURNAL of Futures life
At 09:44 PM 4/27/96 EDT, Alan
Dennis wrote:
We have developed an Internet
groupware system (URL below) and I would appreciate talking with you
about the services you offer.
Alan
Alan Dennis Associate Professor
of MIS Phone: 706-542-3902 Department of Management Home: 706-613-7807
Terry College of Business Fax: 706-542-3743 University of Georgia Internet:
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WWW Home Page: http://www.cba.uga.edu/faculty/alan.html Groupware
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Web-Based Groupware: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080
Telecom Textbook: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080/~adennis/home.htm
RE: Free Markets, down-sizing,
evolutionary ecology and bio- diversity
The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
I am suggesting a million
small schools (learning centers, see charter.htm on the synergy site),
which like small primitive mammals in the age of dinosaurs can evolve into
conscious homo sapiens. People in these centers will learn new things in
new ways, as in the Neolithic age, modern people had the "catch-on" factor
and quick replaced prior models. Those that "learn to learn" will be the
survivors and the creators of tomorrow. Small is better because of biological
history and the physics of complex systems. ( See http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4333/First.htm.)
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
Our ideas, conscious and un-conscious,
of ourselves and our social institutions have been heavily influenced by
science and religion. Scientific theory becomes a popular allegory or mythology
explaining to ourselves who we are and how we "should" behave.
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
Perhaps the best way of getting
a handle on the new thinking is the phase about sailing and war " Long
periods of boredom, punctuated by short moments of pure terror." Most of
the time activities settle down and achieve a mature dynamic state, with
big fluctuations due to the counter-intuitive interactions in complex systems.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
RE: Design with Nature: Social-biology
in the classroom
NOW you know why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five below by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. What are you
afraid of ?
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
THE PRINCIPLES of SOCIAL-BIOLOGY
- design with nature:
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
ONE:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
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The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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Yes, we agree, Kevin is getting
the server up by May 15th and will have workgroups with Netbios going -
he is very good and the system will be interactive like a real LANs. What
we need is Beta
testers with windows 95 and enough "smarts" to be in a test workgroup
- starting very soon.
RE:
The world is not impartial,
unbiased or equitable:
Thomas Jefferson, in a apogee
of political rhetoric, was objectively wrong when he wrote in the most
important political document of modern history; "/de hold these truth to
be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." As the Founding Fathers knew,
the power of the state is a constantly shifting balance of power between
individual interest, collective interests, and conflicts of interest. Rights
are gained in struggle, enforced in courts, political struggle, with the
barrow of a musket and maintained by vigorous and constant vigilance.
http://docs.whitehouse.gov/white-house-publications/1997/01/1997-01-20-presidents-inaugural-address.text
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________ For Immediate
Release January 20, 1997
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
U.S. Capitol
12:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:
My fellow citizens:
" At this last presidential
inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges
that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time
and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new
millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs --
a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to
come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient
vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.
The promise of America was
born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created
equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation
spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge
of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph,
that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
And what a century it has
been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power; saved the
world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and
again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for
the blessings of liberty. ......
america demands and deserves
big things from us -- and nothing big ever came from being small. (Applause.)
Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing
the end of his own life. He said: "It is wrong to waste the precious gift
of time, on acrimony and division."
Fellow citizens, we must not
waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same JOURney
of our lives, and our JOURney, too, will come to an end. But the JOURney
of our America must go on.
And so, my fellow Americans,
we must be strong, for there is much to dare.
The demands of our time are
great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage,
with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of
this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our
bridge. (Applause.) A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American
to cross over to a blessed land of new promise. "
President William Jefferson
Clinton was also technically wrong in his cryptic political rhetoric yesterday.
The "map is not the territory", and language is not action, dreams are
not policy, hope is not accomplishment.
There is no objective reality to
the symbols of hope, dreams, ideals, faith, and love. We live in a cold
indifferent universe, there is not an friendly spirit that rewards good
and punishes evil, nothing outside our social system protects us and cares
about our welfare.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The fault of atheist and logical
positivism is that impartial reality is not all that is important. Subjective
reality, emotional attachments, empathy, belief, faith, hope and charity
are also critical, all is not science and engineering.
There is a clear
reality to "vision" of new promise, unity, social values, peace, justice
and prosperity.
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SYNERGY-NET New Information in
a new way, an interactive classroom on the WWW. For those who are new here
- or don't understand what is going on.. here are the themes that are developed
in many ways.
If you really want to "break"
the mold and try something a little more interesting than Covey check out
program developed on the SYNERGY-NET.
We will cut and paste for
any group - make it simple - difficult etc. We use nominal group process
to help set goals in the beginning and break up into groups on the base
of styles of personality. It is then a free form depending on the group
dynamics. I don't believe in keeping to an agenda but go with the flow.
The method is the message and we do what we say - liberty ( less government
more freedom ) means less set goals and methods and process. TWO equality
means the people have a lot to contribute and should be able to have a
big voice in what they do - and how they do it - and third real groups
with real power of choice.
RE: Three to five day DYNAMIC
SYNERGY workshops
RE: Plan Ahead......but look
out: hold hands, group-ware is the base of a vast social revolution. Two
models of social technology:
The old dying territorial structured bureaucracies
and new un-tied, transient, flexible, task-force, collaborate work groups.
Our site is a test bed for the new world order.
NOTE: go to http://www.altavista.digi
tal.com then http://www.digita
l.com:80/info/home.html and take a look at Digital's plans for the
Internet. If you have Netscape 2 or Atlas with Hot Java their presentation
is very innovative. ( Was there yesterday but gone today ?) OH here it
is ! http://www.alt
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Mother's DAY: Our mothers
told us polite lies. Do this, or avoid that and it will work out.
The world
we expected didn't happen. We need, want, and hope for a more sensible
secure world than we got. Downsizing, instability, change is happening
all around us, and most of us don't like it and can't cope.
The interactive web is happening
even faster than I thought. Most of our social institutions, habits, economy,
global perspective, are changing. Change, is as in the Chinese character,
made from danger inside an opportunity.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
RE: First Synergy Symposium:
The WWW as a life form;
Categories for the filing
system: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.
Our domain hardware is in
place, the phone lines connected and we are attaching our node to the next
level provider to the Internet backbone. I am designing the seminar interface
using evolutionary biology as a paradigm. I have come up with these topic
areas, that will become part of the file management systems. I would really
like your ideas.
The Categories below become
part of the on-going open forum that is the Synergy
Network .
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
Synergy
Network is the global village square and the Internet forum. Here we
met Plato, who following his sufi teacher Socrates, discussed with the
Sophists the existence of the unchanging and invisible God. A spirit who
in many forms visits us in the dreamtime. From these visions or ideas,
is the certain knowledge which is the foundation of all law and values,
traditions and customs and a good life. He came to believe that since we
live by illusions, anyway, and somethings will always be a mystery, are
in fact unknowable: we should have good, beautiful dreams of an objective
truth. A tree we will know by its' fruit, the juice of the grape by the
wine.
Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:
Before the Cambrian extinction
( 450 million years ago ) there were hundreds of basic body designs. Only
a few dozen survived, one of which was one using internal bones and tubes,
becoming fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.
The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications protocols,
the web structure, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, and the way we connect and how fast.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
Regulation and legislation
are part of the body styles issues.
Body Structure: Hard Ware
and Soft Ware: Providers, servers, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, phone and cable lines, wireless,
satellite, cell phones, backbones - shape the body style of the Internet.
Body Parts:
I-phone, chat, VDO, Http,
the grammar of communications is the nervous system.
The lines are the
blood circulation.
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The Forum: Winframe, the conference
programs: maybe should be part of:
Area two: COMMUNITIES:
Ecological communities are
complex dynamic systems that have many counter-intuitive relationships.
For example, the role of the matrical elephant in the group, provides memory,
experience and leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use
of soil minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support predators,
on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not simply the "survival"
of the fittest but how communities fit into the complex and often unstable
dynamics of whole systems.
Communities and interfaces:
The food chain; Who is eating whom in
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
Search: AltaVista, Yahoo,
and the other search engines form connections between communities of web
pages.
Message transfer: http - editors
- ftp - chat - Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.
Storage and filing: Access,
data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of saving and finding
materials.
On-line services: Compuserve,
America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time Warner, NBC -
Nodes and Niches:
The media
and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs
-
Digital on Netscape Community
systems that promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other Applications.
Area three: DYNAMICS of change:
What is done by whom and how:
The history of evolutionary biology is long periods of boredom and short
periods of terror and mass extinctions.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
Complex systems have counter-intuitive
interactions ( Blau and Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial
dynamics, Senge in Organizational Learning ) Starr fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls, sea turtles,
have second and third and fourth repercussions in dynamic communities.
Netscape and mosaic is an
example of dynamic shifts in the ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer
systems tied to providers is another.
Public Schools are the most
resistant to change of any of our major institutions.
They do the talk
be don't take the walk. Nothing really has changed except a steady decline
in standards.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
Awareness of possible futures
causes the fear of change or hope for a better world; Every action has
a reaction.
Ritual, fear of change, group-think,
are the natural reaction to concerns about the future. Because we are aware
of ourselves we become self-conscious. Because we are dependent on a social
system we become concerned with ambiguity of these affiliations and need
to fit in, share the collective illusions.
The origins of the species maybe
more than an allegory of the ecology of dynamic systems. Stephen Jay Gould
and Edward O. Wilson (
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
For more on the extinctions
see: http://www.well.co
m/user/elin/mstry.htm from Elin Whitney-Smith elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/eli
n
Somewhere about 10,000 years
ago one group of the few million humans became fearful and hopeful. Among
the life of the "Beasts" life can be uncertain. Predication, starvation,
uncertainty is a daily fact of life. Who will eat whom today in the Wild
Kingdom ? But do they worry ?
They are aware of danger, or they don't survive.
But conscious worries about things that " might happen " are human concerns.
All the things our mothers worried about that didn't happen or we wouldn't
be here to talk about it.
When territories are invaded
by new predators and the existing population has no fear - it's quickly
exterminated. Dead as the do-do birds. Human and rats decimated the existing
fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, North and South America; and maybe responsible
for the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. Our big social creatures
are unlikely to survive this sudden change in the social ecology.
Handy's "
The Age of Unreason"
is a guide to flexible and small within bigger systems.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
Citrix Corp. has produced
WINFRAME Visit Glendon College of
York University (CA) (wfwin32.exe) Glendon
College at http://arianne.glendon.yorku.ca/
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
Parent Directory GEOCITIES
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the orginal long form
Directory of the
LOGOS Technology site
100's of documents
List of the site
on Technology
Guide for newbies and news of the internet
newbie in plain.txt
Starrt of the network
AD
The first group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like
Open-me is the second page
Register as
beta tester
The synergy files/ and subfiles:
visions of blue sky futures
main http files incluse logos and
current case discussion and activities
LOGOS/ meaning and policy
current discussions and documents
examples of http
/documents/pathos/ feelings and
sufi
intro to groups
ethos/ education and ethics
Dazey_Network/
psychology Files
SEE the news including tips
on hypertext, the future of inactive education, and lots of goods references
and ideas on the NEWS PAGE THE LAST FIRST
Page from last week. What
we do here is explore, using interaction and cooperation.
Directions to the NEWS and
Synergy Network PAGES
Each week or so, the comments,
ideas and suggestions on the FIRST page become the NEWS page. the last
NEWS page becomes doc5.htm, the doc4.htm, etc.
THE NEWS
PAGE Last Week
PAGE FOUR
PAGE THREE
PAGE TWO
The New
Newbie Page
- a good start on the
internet
setup for group styles
NEW FLASH of today Monday, April
22, 1996 8:02:36 AM
RE: Get Netscape Atlas Preview, Cool Talk, it works and Live 3D
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also internet news .
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JOURNAL of Futures life
At 09:44 PM 4/27/96 EDT, Alan
Dennis wrote:
We have developed an Internet
groupware system (URL below) and I would appreciate talking with you
about the services you offer.
Alan
Alan Dennis Associate Professor
of MIS Phone: 706-542-3902 Department of Management Home: 706-613-7807
Terry College of Business Fax: 706-542-3743 University of Georgia Internet:
adennis@uga.cc.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602 USA
WWW Home Page: http://www.cba.uga.edu/faculty/alan.html Groupware
Central: http://www.cba.uga.edu/groupware/groupware.html Free
Web-Based Groupware: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080
Telecom Textbook: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080/~adennis/home.htm
RE: Free Markets, down-sizing,
evolutionary ecology and bio- diversity
The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
I am suggesting a million
small schools (learning centers, see charter.htm on the synergy site),
which like small primitive mammals in the age of dinosaurs can evolve into
conscious homo sapiens. People in these centers will learn new things in
new ways, as in the Neolithic age, modern people had the "catch-on" factor
and quick replaced prior models. Those that "learn to learn" will be the
survivors and the creators of tomorrow. Small is better because of biological
history and the physics of complex systems. ( See http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4333/First.htm.)
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
Our ideas, conscious and un-conscious,
of ourselves and our social institutions have been heavily influenced by
science and religion. Scientific theory becomes a popular allegory or mythology
explaining to ourselves who we are and how we "should" behave.
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
Perhaps the best way of getting
a handle on the new thinking is the phase about sailing and war " Long
periods of boredom, punctuated by short moments of pure terror." Most of
the time activities settle down and achieve a mature dynamic state, with
big fluctuations due to the counter-intuitive interactions in complex systems.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
RE: Design with Nature: Social-biology
in the classroom
NOW you know why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five below by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. What are you
afraid of ?
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
THE PRINCIPLES of SOCIAL-BIOLOGY
- design with nature:
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
ONE:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
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The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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The world is not impartial,
unbiased or equitable:
The promise of America was
born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created
equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation
spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge
of slavery.
Then, in turmoil and triumph,
that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.
The demands of our time are
great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage,
with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of
this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our
bridge. (Applause.) A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American
to cross over to a blessed land of new promise. "
The "map is not the territory", and language is not action, dreams are
not policy, hope is not accomplishment.
There is no objective reality to
the symbols of hope, dreams, ideals, faith, and love. We live in a cold
indifferent universe, there is not an friendly spirit that rewards good
and punishes evil, nothing outside our social system protects us and cares
about our welfare.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The human ability to transfer /images into symbols, and
symbols into plans and realities, causes the confusion between works, objective
reality and words.
The fault of atheist and logical
positivism is that impartial reality is not all that is important. Subjective
reality, emotional attachments, empathy, belief, faith, hope and charity
are also critical, all is not science and engineering.
There is a clear
reality to "vision" of new promise, unity, social values, peace, justice
and prosperity.
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SYNERGY-NET New Information in
a new way, an interactive classroom on the WWW. For those who are new here
- or don't understand what is going on.. here are the themes that are developed
in many ways.If you really want to "break"
the mold and try something a little more interesting than Covey check out
program developed on the SYNERGY-NET.
We will cut and paste for
any group - make it simple - difficult etc. We use nominal group process
to help set goals in the beginning and break up into groups on the base
of styles of personality. It is then a free form depending on the group
dynamics. I don't believe in keeping to an agenda but go with the flow.
The method is the message and we do what we say - liberty ( less government
more freedom ) means less set goals and methods and process. TWO equality
means the people have a lot to contribute and should be able to have a
big voice in what they do - and how they do it - and third real groups
with real power of choice.
RE: Three to five day DYNAMIC
SYNERGY workshops
RE: Plan Ahead......but look
out: hold hands, group-ware is the base of a vast social revolution. Two
models of social technology:
The old dying territorial structured bureaucracies
and new un-tied, transient, flexible, task-force, collaborate work groups.
Our site is a test bed for the new world order.
NOTE: go to http://www.altavista.digi
tal.com then http://www.digita
l.com:80/info/home.html and take a look at Digital's plans for the
Internet. If you have Netscape 2 or Atlas with Hot Java their presentation
is very innovative. ( Was there yesterday but gone today ?) OH here it
is ! http://www.alt
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Mother's DAY: Our mothers
told us polite lies. Do this, or avoid that and it will work out.
The world
we expected didn't happen. We need, want, and hope for a more sensible
secure world than we got. Downsizing, instability, change is happening
all around us, and most of us don't like it and can't cope.
The interactive web is happening
even faster than I thought. Most of our social institutions, habits, economy,
global perspective, are changing. Change, is as in the Chinese character,
made from danger inside an opportunity.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
The "catch-on" factor means some
will take advantage of the new niches in the social economy and others
will resist change to their bitter end.
RE: First Synergy Symposium:
The WWW as a life form;
Categories for the filing
system: Body structures, Communities, and dynamics of change.
Our domain hardware is in
place, the phone lines connected and we are attaching our node to the next
level provider to the Internet backbone. I am designing the seminar interface
using evolutionary biology as a paradigm. I have come up with these topic
areas, that will become part of the file management systems. I would really
like your ideas.
The Categories below become
part of the on-going open forum that is the Synergy
Network .
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
The sophist were teachers in a cloister or market place,
where people met around the fountain or well, the market place of ideas.
Synergy
Network is the global village square and the Internet forum. Here we
met Plato, who following his sufi teacher Socrates, discussed with the
Sophists the existence of the unchanging and invisible God. A spirit who
in many forms visits us in the dreamtime. From these visions or ideas,
is the certain knowledge which is the foundation of all law and values,
traditions and customs and a good life. He came to believe that since we
live by illusions, anyway, and somethings will always be a mystery, are
in fact unknowable: we should have good, beautiful dreams of an objective
truth. A tree we will know by its' fruit, the juice of the grape by the
wine.
Area ONE: BASIC BODY structures:
Before the Cambrian extinction
( 450 million years ago ) there were hundreds of basic body designs. Only
a few dozen survived, one of which was one using internal bones and tubes,
becoming fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals.
The basic body
style of the inter-net includes the backbone, communications protocols,
the web structure, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, and the way we connect and how fast.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
The pattern
is not fixed. Cable, wireless, and other body forms are possible, such
as the Internet terminal.
Regulation and legislation
are part of the body styles issues.
Body Structure: Hard Ware
and Soft Ware: Providers, servers, modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, phone and cable lines, wireless,
satellite, cell phones, backbones - shape the body style of the Internet.
Body Parts:
I-phone, chat, VDO, Http,
the grammar of communications is the nervous system.
The lines are the
blood circulation.
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The backbone hold it all together.
The skin is the graphic
interface, but what is the heart ? Does it have a soul ?
The Forum: Winframe, the conference
programs: maybe should be part of:
Area two: COMMUNITIES:
Ecological communities are
complex dynamic systems that have many counter-intuitive relationships.
For example, the role of the matrical elephant in the group, provides memory,
experience and leadership. Fungi are critical to many plants in the use
of soil minerals. Plants and insects evolve together. Alligators produce
the water holes that support fish, that feed birds, that support predators,
on up the food chain. Ecological survival is not simply the "survival"
of the fittest but how communities fit into the complex and often unstable
dynamics of whole systems.
Communities and interfaces:
The food chain; Who is eating whom in
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
The Wild Kingdom or America today
? Also all these applications depend on each other - synergy
Search: AltaVista, Yahoo,
and the other search engines form connections between communities of web
pages.
Message transfer: http - editors
- ftp - chat - Sites, pages, Gophers, archie, e-mail, mail-lists, newgroups
are styles of message transport.
Storage and filing: Access,
data base management, BBS, message strings, are part of saving and finding
materials.
On-line services: Compuserve,
America-on-Line, Microsoft Network, PBS, NPR, Time Warner, NBC -
Nodes and Niches:
The media
and the message; includes providers of web space;
The Market place - catalogs
-
The Market place - catalogs
-
Digital on Netscape Community
systems that promote virtual office, classroom, laboratory, retail store,
groups that should integrate with Publishing, Merchant and other Applications.
Area three: DYNAMICS of change:
What is done by whom and how:
The history of evolutionary biology is long periods of boredom and short
periods of terror and mass extinctions.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
The dynamics of change have been
climate change, invasions ( People, rats and goats ), meteors and astroid,
and the dynamics of communities themselves.
The balance of cooperation
and competition suddenly change.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
There is a random or element of chaos
like the weather.
Complex systems have counter-intuitive
interactions ( Blau and Scott in Organizational theory, Forester in Industrial
dynamics, Senge in Organizational Learning ) Starr fish on reefs, elephants
and trees, people and large game, the rain forests, spotted owls, sea turtles,
have second and third and fourth repercussions in dynamic communities.
Netscape and mosaic is an
example of dynamic shifts in the ecology of the Internet. Wal-mat computer
systems tied to providers is another.
Public Schools are the most
resistant to change of any of our major institutions.
They do the talk
be don't take the walk. Nothing really has changed except a steady decline
in standards.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
They are form without substance, more and more disconnect
from reality.
They are fearful, angry, dominated by ritual; which some
maybe call crazy. Synergy Network offers an
alternative. A new form of learning organization, new content in a new
method.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
The method is the message, the media is the content. Form and substance
in a conceptual whole becomes a mystery because it is new and not easy
but fun.
Awareness of possible futures
causes the fear of change or hope for a better world; Every action has
a reaction.
Ritual, fear of change, group-think,
are the natural reaction to concerns about the future. Because we are aware
of ourselves we become self-conscious. Because we are dependent on a social
system we become concerned with ambiguity of these affiliations and need
to fit in, share the collective illusions.
The origins of the species maybe
more than an allegory of the ecology of dynamic systems. Stephen Jay Gould
and Edward O. Wilson (
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
The Diversity of Life ) must guide our thinking
about economics, politics, education, business, ecological communities
and change.
They describe a natural "order" not only of slow steady progress
but rapid, chaotic, random, change.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
The kind of uncertainty we may well
fear.
There is not the order and certainty we need, expect, want, and were
told about. So grow up.
For more on the extinctions
see: http://www.well.co
m/user/elin/mstry.htm from Elin Whitney-Smith elin@tmn.com http://www.well.com/user/eli
n
Somewhere about 10,000 years
ago one group of the few million humans became fearful and hopeful. Among
the life of the "Beasts" life can be uncertain. Predication, starvation,
uncertainty is a daily fact of life. Who will eat whom today in the Wild
Kingdom ? But do they worry ?
They are aware of danger, or they don't survive.
But conscious worries about things that " might happen " are human concerns.
All the things our mothers worried about that didn't happen or we wouldn't
be here to talk about it.
When territories are invaded
by new predators and the existing population has no fear - it's quickly
exterminated. Dead as the do-do birds. Human and rats decimated the existing
fauna of New Zealand, Hawaii, North and South America; and maybe responsible
for the extinction of mammoths and mastodons. Our big social creatures
are unlikely to survive this sudden change in the social ecology.
Handy's "
The Age of Unreason"
is a guide to flexible and small within bigger systems.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
The clover leaf
organization. That's my idea of the learning centers - charter schools.
New content as well as form. Less government more freedom, (liberty ) empowerment
of the people, (equality) valid human communities ( fraternity )who learn
to learn and figure it out for themselves. Markarenko's road to life is
the way of diversities control, work groups, brigades, task forces as Branch
discussed 30 years ago.
The open mobile work force not tied in bureaucratic
notes, job descriptions, title and duties but out to get the job done.
Citrix Corp. has produced
WINFRAME Visit Glendon College of
York University (CA) (wfwin32.exe) Glendon
College at http://arianne.glendon.yorku.ca/
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
/select.map?25,67 Citrix
knowledge base - It opened with wfwin32.exe as a helper in netscape C:\Program
*Files\Citrix\WinFrame and c:\Icawin\wfica32.exe with \Client\wfcrun32.exe
the program on the same page - It worked to opened MS Access, Taxi, Adobe
Acrobat and lotus notes file managers. GREAT with the downloads on Citrix.
The program opens X windows as Lotus Notes or other formats. If you have
problems ask Mr. Moose copied from Winframe.
Parent Directory GEOCITIES
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the orginal long form
Directory of the
LOGOS Technology site
100's of documents
List of the site
on Technology
Guide for newbies and news of the internet
newbie in plain.txt
Starrt of the network
ADThe first group "Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like
Open-me is the second page
Register as
beta tester
The synergy files/ and subfiles:
visions of blue sky futures
main http files incluse logos and
current case discussion and activities
LOGOS/ meaning and policy
current discussions and documents
examples of http
/documents/pathos/ feelings and
sufi
intro to groups
ethos/ education and ethics
Dazey_Network/
psychology FilesSEE the news including tips
on hypertext, the future of inactive education, and lots of goods references
and ideas on the NEWS PAGE THE LAST FIRST
Page from last week. What
we do here is explore, using interaction and cooperation.
Directions to the NEWS and
Synergy Network PAGES
Each week or so, the comments,
ideas and suggestions on the FIRST page become the NEWS page. the last
NEWS page becomes doc5.htm, the doc4.htm, etc.
THE NEWS
PAGE Last Week
PAGE FOUR
PAGE THREE
PAGE TWO
The New
Newbie Page
- a good start on the
internet
PAGE TWO
The New
Newbie Page
- a good start on the
internet
The New
Newbie Page
setup for group styles
NEW FLASH of today Monday, April
22, 1996 8:02:36 AM
RE: Get Netscape Atlas Preview, Cool Talk, it works and Live 3D
See /Newbie.htm for information on the internet
also internet news .
Get cool talk and call me at pflaump@pflaump or peter,
it works -- 6 mb down load from
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/upgrades/index.html
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Semaphore a http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/
JOURNAL of Futures life
At 09:44 PM 4/27/96 EDT, Alan
Dennis wrote:
We have developed an Internet
groupware system (URL below) and I would appreciate talking with you
about the services you offer.
Alan
Alan Dennis Associate Professor
of MIS Phone: 706-542-3902 Department of Management Home: 706-613-7807
Terry College of Business Fax: 706-542-3743 University of Georgia Internet:
adennis@uga.cc.uga.edu Athens, GA 30602 USA
WWW Home Page: http://www.cba.uga.edu/faculty/alan.html Groupware
Central: http://www.cba.uga.edu/groupware/groupware.html Free
Web-Based Groupware: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080
Telecom Textbook: http://tcbworks.mgmt.uga.edu:8080/~adennis/home.htm
RE: Free Markets, down-sizing,
evolutionary ecology and bio- diversity
The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
I am suggesting a million
small schools (learning centers, see charter.htm on the synergy site),
which like small primitive mammals in the age of dinosaurs can evolve into
conscious homo sapiens. People in these centers will learn new things in
new ways, as in the Neolithic age, modern people had the "catch-on" factor
and quick replaced prior models. Those that "learn to learn" will be the
survivors and the creators of tomorrow. Small is better because of biological
history and the physics of complex systems. ( See http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/4333/First.htm.)
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
Our ideas, conscious and un-conscious,
of ourselves and our social institutions have been heavily influenced by
science and religion. Scientific theory becomes a popular allegory or mythology
explaining to ourselves who we are and how we "should" behave.
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
Perhaps the best way of getting
a handle on the new thinking is the phase about sailing and war " Long
periods of boredom, punctuated by short moments of pure terror." Most of
the time activities settle down and achieve a mature dynamic state, with
big fluctuations due to the counter-intuitive interactions in complex systems.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
RE: Design with Nature: Social-biology
in the classroom
NOW you know why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five below by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. What are you
afraid of ?
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
THE PRINCIPLES of SOCIAL-BIOLOGY
- design with nature:
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
ONE:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
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DIRECTORY
START
page
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From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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The Internet as an evolutionary
dynamic life force will become involved in unexpectedly large extinctions
of bigger less flexible institutions and open many new niches in the economic
ecology for smaller faster companies.
The public schools, the phone company,
and maybe even congress and the President could suddenly be transformed
and down-sized.
These learning cells are connected by the nervous system of the Internet
and become a new dynamic social technology. This is all ready happening
in home schooling.
The windows 95, NT server as interactive platform plays
a critical role in an aggressive economic and social ecology. ( see markets
and Beta testers on the synergy site )
The "new" science of evolution
and ecology is explained in the works of Edward O. Wilson, Stephen Jay
Gould, Robert May,
The Elrlich's, David Raup, Richard Leakey, K.E. Boulding
and James Lovelock ( Gaia theory ). Biological models give us a realistic
outlook on "how things work" and "/dhat is going on here"
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
These models
of dynamic change and chaos ( James Gleick ) are more real than the dynamic
"balance of nature" ( equilibrium ) models used in traditional ecology,
economics, political science and management theory and deeply planted in
our minds.
There is no steady state or hard machine-like relationships.
Then the dramatic
interaction sudden changes disrupting the fragile order ( ice ages and
Global Warming, revolutions, plagues, Television, extinctions from extra-
terrestrial rocks, and Japan Inc. ) and thing change fast.
The complex Japanese model
of Industrial groups based on traditional sho-gun samari collectives is
capable of invasion of existing mature economies. German middle size specialized
firms find niches in the world economy with the help of merchant banking.
Russia mono-culture is subject to stagnation. Downsizing of old industrial
firms is a ecological response to chaos and change.
These are example of
ecological evolutionary models applied to social affairs.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The older " survival
of the fittest" doesn't float very far. Social Darwinism still dominates
our psychics but "
The Map is not the Territory" and the map is faulty and
out of date.
The ideas of free markets
and liberal democracy are clearly tied to the clock-like machine model
of the universe. As Newtonian physics was felt to be "immutable laws" of
nature, so the laws of man and man's god gave " natural laws" to economic,
social and political institutions to replace ancient dogmatic religion.
The perfection of companies, man and society was through understanding
these laws. Madison's federalist papers is a physics of the consent of
the governed to the management of common affairs in accordance to "natural
law" by a civic elite. (Freemasons)
The development of quantum
theory and Darwin's theory of evolution produced new models for philosophy
and life. Our institutional structure and our constitutional system, big
corporations and public schools are 19th century factory machine models.
Our dominate organizational management model ( X to Y ) is still derived
from the hard physics of Newton. Since little modern physics in taught
in public school, no mathematics developed since the 18th century, and
evolution is avoided, it is not surprising that newer scientific thought
is missing from the public consciousness.
The practice of social biology
applies to all human organizations - from advertising and politics, Bio-politics,
- to social psychology of business, learning to learn: it is based on the
physical analysis of consciousness, body-mind, and the origin of the species.
The synergy site has hundreds of applications of the general theory and
cases of applications, TQM, 5'th Discipline, Sufi tradition, A.S. Makarenko,
you need to read the "Road to Live" which reflects every principle of group
behavior you need to remember, John Dewey, Z-theory, all are in the biological
groove.
There is a "human nature". Institutions that fit
the "groove" of behavior work better other that don't. For example, if
you visit most foreign classrooms you will notice the following:
Uniforms: ( because this is fairly
easy first step and shows you are serious and mean to get down to business
)
The
first ID of modern man were body ornaments. Clothes do make the man, in
the site of others, appearances do matter.
There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
TWO:
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
pflaumpflaumpflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.comiredbrain.net/
CAS E-STU/First.htm
GO TO VISIONS
DIRECTORY
START
page
Back to Top
Send feedback to:
Dr.
Peter Pflaum
The Future of the Web
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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There is now more agreement
that uniforms improve behavior.
The boot camp analogy is that step one
is a dramatic change in appearance, haircuts and uniforms.
Ritual: ATTENTION ! Revelry Open
the day with exercises and songs, the school philosophy, the pledge of
to the flag, a secular prayer. Music and motion work on the visual and
symbolic body-brain as language works on the linear mind.
People have to learn to pay attention,
focus, and be there. In many organizations they have exercise groups, songs
and traditions. All elementary school teachers in Europe and Japan, Korea,
our friends from the little tigers, sing with their children, and have
active exercises.
THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
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The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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THREE:
ETIQUETTE and manners: YES SIR/MADAM
! Need we say that manners make civilized human contacts possible.
The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
FOUR:
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
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CAS E-STU/First.htm
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DIRECTORY
START
page
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Dr.
Peter Pflaum
The Future of the Web
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
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The
signs of respect, forms of address, are basic to all effective social organizations.
When there is a common culture the leaders reflect the values of the "people"
in their behavior and in their very "being". When someone is your "guide"
and teacher then you respect their knowledge, character, experience, in
tone of voice, social distance, gestures, dress, address, and forms the
"social structure". Without distinctions there is no structure just a mob.
These distinctions do not have to be hierarchal or bureaucratic but based
on "merit", real rather than false, based on position or title only.
The Laws of the
group need not be meaningless bureaucratic regulations but honest belief
in the way of the people. Laws do not need to be top down but arise spontaneously
from the spirit of the group. But laws must be clearly enforced with sanctions
and real punishments for all ranks. ( Students expelled, teachers and administrators
fired, not physical but social pressures )
FIVE:
The goals must
be real to the children and not some pie in the sky, when you take the
SAT. Real achievements in real time, i.e. projects and group work where
everyone has a positive role to play. If you tell some group members they
stink, can not do as you expect-demand, they turn on you with angers and
spite - naturally, their group protection is threatened. Rejection is a
powerful motivation for cooperation or warfare.
There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
NOW you can see why our schools
are a social and educational disaster and how to fix the system, not the
blame ! Don't you ? Sure you do ! why don't you do it ? Small stable group
will produce ( most of the time) the conditions of one to five above by
themselves without and theory or instruction. It's natural. It's keeps
being rediscovered, over and over, in different language but the same ideas.
What I have said is NOTHING NEW but very old, maybe 30,000 years old -
with the tradition of 7,000 years among the Sufi as a practice, not a theory.
If you don't do it - it doesn't exist.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
Other elements ( after you
have the basics of a valid social system ) and can learn to learn: include,
territorial rights, a space of your own, division of labor, cleanliness,
calendar, feasts and holidays, games, gifts, jokes, groups, sexual rules,
tools, trades, visiting, etc.
RE:
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
METANOIA = repent, think again
and repent your silly, and dishonest ways;
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
pflaumpflaumpflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.comiredbrain.net/
CAS E-STU/First.htm
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START
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Dr.
Peter Pflaum
The Future of the Web
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
LinkExchange
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There is no more powerful
force than synergy, once you experience it and understand how it's produced.
It's the "turned-on" factor of empowered minds and bodies. It's the sign
of an alive organization.
Then it only exist at this time
and place - for you and your group. Nothing catholic except the spirit
of being in the groove.
The Internet as a life form;
social biology
The concept of "Ages" in Social-technical-systems
is more than an allegory; but perplexing because our evolution is social
therefore amazingly complex and fast. As a species we don't wait for reproduction
shifts in the central tendency of populations to acquire specialized beaks,
claws, cries and limbs. We use the " catch-on &quo
t; factor, of the "what if" symbols and abstraction, to do "blue sky" paradigms,
to imitate and learn from each other and imagine worlds that do not exist.
The growth and use of the
Internet as a process of human evolution is little understood - as is the
quite rapid transition to the Neolithic "modern variety" of humans 40,000
( 70,000 ) years ago.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
The nature of our being is a puzzle in the mystery
of the enigma of consciousness itself. We don't understand ourselves and
others very well, primitive cultures knew more than we do. We have made
little "progress" since ancient times in knowledge of the human animal.
We don't know what our dreams are anymore, we can't answer if asked "who
are you ?" We have lost touch with the sign, symbols, rituals, dreams and
vision that give us the laws of the covenant, our knowledge of the infinite,
and the "power".
The mystery of life, biological, spiritual, social and
technical are related to universals, in and out of "self", and most of
us are so into our little "self" and as to be unable to see beyond the
lion in the pit, the elephant in the dark, the ring of bells of alarm in
the night. A profound sense of our own deepest fears, limitations, foibles,
pride, and ignorance is a necessary beginning of wisdom.
GNOTHI SEAUTON = know yourself
beyond this too, too hollow shell;
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
pflaumpflaumpflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.comiredbrain.net/
CAS E-STU/First.htm
GO TO VISIONS
Continued on - please let me know about errors ! Some of these pages date back up to 10 years ( 1992 ) and have been through many editors and transfers. News about what's happening and for updates use GlobalVillage Excite NewsSearch -
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pflaumpflaumpflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.comiredbrain.net/
GO TO VISIONS
DIRECTORY
START
page
Back to Top
Send feedback to:
Dr.
Peter Pflaum
The Future of the Web
From digital altavista http://www.alt
avista.software.digital.com/#
The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
Technically this means many
changes occur.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
Questions of pricing and availability
to those outside of major metropolitan areas are the main concerns.Cable
television companies are promising Internet connection to their customers
over the coaxial connection. This is a slower connection than ATM but much
faster than current dial-up service over normal phone lines.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
Another possible way to connect
to the NIH involves wireless microwave transmission. This new option may
hold some possibilities, but it also poses some very real physical problems.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
As technology advances, more
possibilities may emerge or others may become better alternatives to the
current choices.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
LinkExchange
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The Future of the Web
The future lies with the National
Information Superhighway (NIH). This plan is for a very high-capacity system
with links to fiber optic backbones. It will carry digital data, audio,
and video to clients all on the same fiber optic cable. Just as the interstate
highway system brought vital strength to our economy, one may reason that
the NIH will do the same worldwide. By providing a new link to all parts
of the world, perhaps a more global way of thinking is inevitable.
There are some current technologies developing that shorten
the leap to the all-fiber optic future. Among the choices are Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM), coaxial cable, and microwave transmission.
The telephone
companies will most likely provide ATM, also called broadband ISDN, service
over their current copper connections to our homes. ATM allows for simultaneous
voice, video or data communication over one line. With such an increase
in bandwidth, a package that offers television on demand, Internet access,
and full telephone service could be presented to the consumer.
The main concern
here is the possible need for incoming and outgoing cable, as well as certain
security problems associated with its implementation.
The concept of microwave transmission involves line of sight transmission
with the tower and tends to be susceptible to noisy transmission, which
further degrades the potential bandwidth of the connection.
The problem concerning bandwidth is under major consideration
and teams of researchers are in the field tackling the issues. When the
bandwidth bottleneck is finally broken, incredible changes in the way we
communicate and entertain will occur. Prepare yourself for the convergence!
LinkExchange
Member
Copies
of the SYNERGY JOURNALS
sent
by request: HOME PAGE
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