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Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystems and Everyone else ( Corel,
Novell ) see "Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for
new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will
look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm
Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World.
We are not at the end, but at the beginning of this journey,"
Schmidt said referring to the evolution of the Web. "We have a name,
the Web, but we may not have a destination"
CNET
NEWS
Interactive Network Dispatcher to be Used in
Largest
School Internet Project in History Dispatcher
JUMP
is the interesting feature see the news for the schools application
Computers for Education (CFE)
has selected IBM to provide every K-12 school, teacher and student
in the United States with a free Internet Web site. Dubbed the American
School Directory project, this project will provide information and communication
for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning
a move.
The Far
Eastern NetWorks,
the Fourth Wave - a new topic
The
Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing
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Eastern NetWorks, the Fourth Wave
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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We
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with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
In
times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space
for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes
may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres,
water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/work-station is a new complex addition to the human life form, way out
on the right of the curve of complexity.
The system is too complex and
when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend
to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is
often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the
battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among populations :
RE:
TOO rich and too thin ?
I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
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World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
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PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
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ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
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Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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As
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Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
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There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
In
times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space
for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes
may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres,
water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/work-station is a new complex addition to the human life form, way out
on the right of the curve of complexity.
The system is too complex and
when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend
to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is
often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the
battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among populations :
RE:
TOO rich and too thin ?
I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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Your Futures Links Tomorrows story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from
the future:
Netscape, Oracle, IBM, SunMicrosystems and Everyone else ( Corel,
Novell ) see "Internet technologies are creating an opportunity for
new "information utilities," but no one yet knows what they will
look like, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of networking firm
Novell (NOVL) said in a speech this morning at Summer Internet World.
We are not at the end, but at the beginning of this journey,"
Schmidt said referring to the evolution of the Web. "We have a name,
the Web, but we may not have a destination"
CNET
NEWS
Interactive Network Dispatcher to be Used in
Largest
School Internet Project in History Dispatcher
JUMP
is the interesting feature see the news for the schools application
Computers for Education (CFE)
has selected IBM to provide every K-12 school, teacher and student
in the United States with a free Internet Web site. Dubbed the American
School Directory project, this project will provide information and communication
for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning
a move.
The Far
Eastern NetWorks,
the Fourth Wave - a new topic
The
Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing
The Far
Eastern NetWorks, the Fourth Wave
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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earth.general, news.future, culist.futurec, zipnews.gov.world.economic,
cna.economics.listsI am asking the synergy bunch to join these newsgroups
and use this news server for ideas and reports from the future.
bellsouth.net
has a useful guide on how to use Netscape News-reader
The future has arrived it just hasn't arrived at the same time
everywhere -
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365
SYNERGY JOURNALS are in HTTP format are on GeoCities site. You may
want to open another browser window and check out the news while it is
working." http://www.wiredbrain.net/today.htm "left mouse pass
over link (highlight) ctrl+Del or Ctrl+C saves, then paste in new browser
with Ctrl+insert or Ctrl+V
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://my.excite.com/technology/
RE:
Wiredbrain from InterMind(
synergy channel ) placement services for tele-commuters in the web publishing
business
Http://www.wiredbrain.net/help.htm
Please let me know if you have services to offer or are looking for help.
We can arrange the pages so you can directly FTP your posting for help
wanted or help provided.
We
will update our list of people looking for remote talent and list of people
with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
In
times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space
for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes
may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres,
water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/work-station is a new complex addition to the human life form, way out
on the right of the curve of complexity.
The system is too complex and
when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend
to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is
often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the
battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among populations :
RE:
TOO rich and too thin ?
I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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As
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Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
In
times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space
for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes
may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres,
water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/work-station is a new complex addition to the human life form, way out
on the right of the curve of complexity.
The system is too complex and
when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend
to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is
often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the
battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among populations :
RE:
TOO rich and too thin ?
I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
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Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
In
times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space
for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes
may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres,
water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/work-station is a new complex addition to the human life form, way out
on the right of the curve of complexity.
The system is too complex and
when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend
to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is
often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the
battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among populations :
RE:
TOO rich and too thin ?
I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
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Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
In
times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space
for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes
may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres,
water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/work-station is a new complex addition to the human life form, way out
on the right of the curve of complexity.
The system is too complex and
when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend
to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is
often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the
battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among populations :
RE:
TOO rich and too thin ?
I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
Sign
Guestbook
View
Guestbook
Your Futures Links
Newsgroups:
earth.general, news.future, culist.futurec, zipnews.gov.world.economic,
cna.economics.listsI am asking the synergy bunch to join these newsgroups
and use this news server for ideas and reports from the future.
bellsouth.net
has a useful guide on how to use Netscape News-reader
The future has arrived it just hasn't arrived at the same time
everywhere -
NEWSPAGE for Synergy
365
SYNERGY JOURNALS are in HTTP format are on GeoCities site. You may
want to open another browser window and check out the news while it is
working." http://www.wiredbrain.net/today.htm "left mouse pass
over link (highlight) ctrl+Del or Ctrl+C saves, then paste in new browser
with Ctrl+insert or Ctrl+V
The Wiredbrain
Reader Reply Service
count on southwindnet from 3/1/97
Counter Commercial Web-Counters
are online.
INDEX
PAGE made by AltaVista
Guide
to synergy: Key Word "wiredbrain" in
HotBot,
Excite or
AltaVista
Key Word "wiredbrain"
EXCITE
personal search
http
://my.excite.com/technology/
RE:
Wiredbrain from InterMind(
synergy channel ) placement services for tele-commuters in the web publishing
business
Http://www.wiredbrain.net/help.htm
Please let me know if you have services to offer or are looking for help.
We can arrange the pages so you can directly FTP your posting for help
wanted or help provided.
We
will update our list of people looking for remote talent and list of people
with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
WebSeeker
Site Map
GUIDE MADE BY ALTAVISTA TO
WIREDBRAIN
SITE AS OF NOW (DONE NOW) advanced search
Key Word
"wiredbrain"
GO TO
the rest of:
TODAY'S NEWS
Today's news is
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 -
pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@cfl.rr.comain.net/
FUTURES.HTM
The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
Sign
Guestbook
View
Guestbook
Your Futures Links
Newsgroups:
earth.general, news.future, culist.futurec, zipnews.gov.world.economic,
cna.economics.listsI am asking the synergy bunch to join these newsgroups
and use this news server for ideas and reports from the future.
bellsouth.net
has a useful guide on how to use Netscape News-reader
The future has arrived it just hasn't arrived at the same time
everywhere -
NEWSPAGE for Synergy
365
SYNERGY JOURNALS are in HTTP format are on GeoCities site. You may
want to open another browser window and check out the news while it is
working." http://www.wiredbrain.net/today.htm "left mouse pass
over link (highlight) ctrl+Del or Ctrl+C saves, then paste in new browser
with Ctrl+insert or Ctrl+V
The Wiredbrain
Reader Reply Service
count on southwindnet from 3/1/97
Counter Commercial Web-Counters
are online.
INDEX
PAGE made by AltaVista
Guide
to synergy: Key Word "wiredbrain" in
HotBot,
Excite or
AltaVista
Key Word "wiredbrain"
EXCITE
personal search
http
://my.excite.com/technology/
RE:
Wiredbrain from InterMind(
synergy channel ) placement services for tele-commuters in the web publishing
business
Http://www.wiredbrain.net/help.htm
Please let me know if you have services to offer or are looking for help.
We can arrange the pages so you can directly FTP your posting for help
wanted or help provided.
We
will update our list of people looking for remote talent and list of people
with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
WIREDBRAIN SITE AS OF NOW (DONE NOW) advanced search
Key Word
"wiredbrain"
GO TO
the rest of:
TODAY'S NEWS
Today's news is
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FUTURES.HTM
The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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and use this news server for ideas and reports from the future.
bellsouth.net
has a useful guide on how to use Netscape News-reader
The future has arrived it just hasn't arrived at the same time
everywhere -
NEWSPAGE for Synergy
365
SYNERGY JOURNALS are in HTTP format are on GeoCities site. You may
want to open another browser window and check out the news while it is
working." http://www.wiredbrain.net/today.htm "left mouse pass
over link (highlight) ctrl+Del or Ctrl+C saves, then paste in new browser
with Ctrl+insert or Ctrl+V
The Wiredbrain
Reader Reply Service
count on southwindnet from 3/1/97
Counter Commercial Web-Counters
are online.
INDEX
PAGE made by AltaVista
Guide
to synergy: Key Word "wiredbrain" in
HotBot,
Excite or
AltaVista
Key Word "wiredbrain"
EXCITE
personal search
http
://my.excite.com/technology/
RE:
Wiredbrain from InterMind(
synergy channel ) placement services for tele-commuters in the web publishing
business
Http://www.wiredbrain.net/help.htm
Please let me know if you have services to offer or are looking for help.
We can arrange the pages so you can directly FTP your posting for help
wanted or help provided.
We
will update our list of people looking for remote talent and list of people
with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
RE:
Two big changes over the next 15 years:
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
- connections more important than hardware
- relationships more important than objects - first patterns and connections
then objects and structure follows.
The outside material object is a reflection
of its relationships -
TODAY'S NEWS
Today's news is
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 -
pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@cfl.rr.comain.net/
FUTURES.HTM
The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
Sign
Guestbook
View
Guestbook
Your Futures Links
Newsgroups:
earth.general, news.future, culist.futurec, zipnews.gov.world.economic,
cna.economics.listsI am asking the synergy bunch to join these newsgroups
and use this news server for ideas and reports from the future.
bellsouth.net
has a useful guide on how to use Netscape News-reader
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 -
pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@cfl.rr.comain.net/
FUTURES.HTM
The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
Sign
Guestbook
View
Guestbook
Your Futures Links
Newsgroups:
earth.general, news.future, culist.futurec, zipnews.gov.world.economic,
cna.economics.listsI am asking the synergy bunch to join these newsgroups
and use this news server for ideas and reports from the future.
bellsouth.net
has a useful guide on how to use Netscape News-reader
pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@pflaump@cfl.rr.comain.net/
FUTURES.HTM
The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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The real story behind the economic-social technology:
Bill Gates book and speeches ( Bill-g.htm) discusses the changing
role of middle people. Internets and Intranets change the role of these
intermediate institutions by making direct connections easy. Software is
downloaded from the net.
The change in the nature of competition, even
if somewhat marginal, restrain prices and increases productivity far beyond
the direct size of the activity. Just as foreign imports have a price effect
far greater than their direct sales, direct sale of goods and services,
flexibility of the labor markets, and speed and use of innovations have
a far great impact than their market share would suggest.
The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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The social functional role of education was not instructional or
creative thought but as gate keepers.
The "working class" were
placed in factory like schools, with bells, using industrial type discipline
- top down - "scientific management" styles " see Schools
and the Cult of Efficiency, in order to train a complacent work force and
consumer society.
The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and
commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards,
all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported
football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State
Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own
and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned
officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary
schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else
were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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The controlling forces, dominated by local landed and commercial pluralist elites, their local newspapers and school boards, all worked against Dewey's progressive thinking and doing, and supported football, social class distinctions, and mindless drill. ( Coleman ) State Mega-Universities produced technical workers without a mind of their own and very limited world views. MBA's, lawyers and engineers were the commissioned officers in the army of corporate power. A handful of elite private secondary schools and colleges produced the "ruling class", everyone else were "agents" and employees.
( Dye, et al )
Traditions institution - the BIG five - Banks and Corporations, Governments,
Educational Establishments, labor unions and the Media are not only filters
and movers and shakers but are a major restraint on free trade, open markets
and innovation.
They have been able to stop or slow down change, direct
innovation, and manage new products and services. Examples include fuel
efficient cars, digital telephones switches and services, public media,
reformed schooling, public transportation, tax simplification, health care
reform, housing, tobacco, sugar, and other subsidies; the military-industrial
complex spending billions on weapons without a target while our basic physical
and social infrastructure decays; and on and on.
These powers are now seriously
threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise
and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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These powers are now seriously threatened by open markets, freedom of information, real free enterprise and rapid social technical change "out of control ".
If I can get the same item, mail order, or from the Internet with
a major discount, it constrains other dealers prices, in the same way,
AARP's mail order or Wal-Marts discount pharmacy constrains mark ups on
prescription drugs.
The same market forces are affecting the job market,
education, social class position and power, political insider dealing,
capital formation, banking and insurance, almost all aspects of society.
Many important organizations in any advanced society are distributors,
wholesale, franchises, gate keepers, and intermediaries of all kinds. Real
profits can only be earned by control of markets or control of new technology.
The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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The American Medical Association and Medical Schools, Blue Cross and the
Hospital Association, in some places construction and craft unions, fixed
prices and prevent free markets. . Beer, cigarettes, automobiles, and most
products are controlled by less than five companies that agree not to compete
very hard on price. That's where the big money comes from power to control
markets. Look at the history of Morgan and US Steel, RCA and radio, GE
and Edison Utilities, IBM, DuPont and GM, and the atomic bomb - ( bring
good things to life ) General Foods, Borden Milk and Coke and market share
by buying shelf space,
The Stanford family and Southern Pacific railroads,
Big Oil, the Pews, the Ball, Flager FEC railroad family in Florida, et
al.
The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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The Newport, and Newport Beach, Darian, Palm Beach, ThomasVille Ga.,
Highland Park, Shaker Hights, etc. connections. All the history you weren't
taught in schools that were agents of the "powers that be".
The
1% of the population that controls 80 % of the wealth, doesn't own it all,
but controls money via agents, such as Ford's, Dupont's and Rockefeller's
foundations.
We know about groups such as wholesale wine-beer distributors who
have special rights and powers and resent mail order distributors. We know
travel agents, stock, real estate, insurance are dealers and brokers.
There
are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods
and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing
work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators,
investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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There are of all kinds are "middle people" between us and the goods and services we buy BUT we may not think of significant others as doing work in the form of brokers and agents, such are politicians, educators, investors.
A few big banks such as the 'Chase, Metropolitan Life, Exxon' complex
and a few powerful law firms have shared real power. This whole system
is now coming apart.
These are the traditional gate keepers, who's wealth
and power came from preventing competition, constraining free trade, controlling
markets, managing information, through jobs, promotions, foundations, politics,
judges and courts, along with their running dogs in the press and government.
John D. Rockefeller's tradition is still with us in new forms called friendly
corporate capitalism run with a lot of public relations, labor relations,
and governmental relations invented by John D. and associates.
Now there are dozens of billions out of control. Owned by foreigners,
by technocrats, but start ups that can't be bought out.
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of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
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to business services;
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software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
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We
will update our list of people looking for remote talent and list of people
with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
count on southwindnet from 3/1/97
Counter Commercial Web-Counters
are online.
INDEX
PAGE made by AltaVista
Guide
to synergy: Key Word "wiredbrain" in
HotBot,
Excite or
AltaVista
Key Word "wiredbrain"
EXCITE
personal search
http
://my.excite.com/technology/
RE:
Wiredbrain from InterMind(
synergy channel ) placement services for tele-commuters in the web publishing
business
Http://www.wiredbrain.net/help.htm
Please let me know if you have services to offer or are looking for help.
We can arrange the pages so you can directly FTP your posting for help
wanted or help provided.
We
will update our list of people looking for remote talent and list of people
with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As
we have been reporting for over a year, bandwidth and Sheer bytes aside,
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
http
://my.excite.com/technology/
(
synergy channel ) placement services for tele-commuters in the web publishing
business
Http://www.wiredbrain.net/help.htm
Please let me know if you have services to offer or are looking for help.
We can arrange the pages so you can directly FTP your posting for help
wanted or help provided.
We
will update our list of people looking for remote talent and list of people
with remote services they offer.
There is a demand for "SALES"
of "yellow pages" type sites. Every local business will be approached
for on-line advertising and listing with city directories.
Business
to business services;
equipment,
software and supplies, forms, insurance, personal background checks, credit
checks, et al will be the fastest growth area in E-commerce. People who
provide such services need local sales to contact the web newbies to tell
them how to do their travel, accounting, purchasing, sales and contact
management via the Internet.
FUTURES
NEWS
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
And
Beyond Those Fast Modems.
Tomorrows
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Oracle
executives believe their new strategy gives them a leg up in their
competition with Microsoft.
The way they see things, the Internet shifts
the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft
dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this
shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
The
Western ( white ) Industrial world is likely to decline in relative terms
from two thirds of Global Product (GP) to 45 %. China will move from underdeveloped
to developing, from less than a $1,000 PCP ( per capita product ) to over
$5,000 ( in current dollars ).
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
The developing world will grow from one
third of the Global economy to about half.
Social,
political power follows economic so the Global Center of Cultural Gravity
shifts from Europe to America in the 20th century and from America to Asia
in the 21st century.
The
second change is why the shift is going to happen - the third wave
is technology, first Agriculture from 6,000 BC to modern times, second
was Industrial, the third is
IT
Information
Technology which is already our biggest business. IT, computers and telecommunication
is bigger than transportation, construction even government.
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
A few
Million good people
The
reason for growth without inflation is the major shift in the means of
production and distribution. Economic models based on physical assets and
goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory
utilization, inventory have missed the big picture.
The means of production
are intellectual with distribution by services such as educational, medical,
financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and global relationships.
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things
to concepts and ideas.
A big shift. see
book.htm
book.htm
Microsoft
scours world for employees
US software giant Microsoft has announced
plans to increase its US workforce by 19 per cent over the next 12 months,
maintaining the west coast of America as 'the centre of the universe for
the software business'.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many
of whom will come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software
developers in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
IT
For example:
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
The
demand for skilled foreign IT
people : Salary increase 17 % per year,
.
The Information Technology Association of America, which represents hundreds
of companies from Intel and Microsoft to consultants and recruiters, estimates
there are already 190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American
IT and non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative estimate
of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and the current availability
of IT workers," says the ITAA study, "Help Wanted:
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
The IT Workforce
A powerful coalition of American IT companies
say these highly educated immigrants are a critical part of solving a severe
personnel shortage that is a drag on the U.S. industry.
They warn that
they may be forced to take their production outside the country if they
can&rsquot hire more people from abroad.
IEEE-USA
Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL:
http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary:
In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages
of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases
in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment
increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000
engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search
for documents like this one.
(
stories from Excite )
There
is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea
was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
It's the culture stupid.
They collected people and created synergy.
What MS has is not only a great leadership but 1000's of motivated and
talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they
fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs.
What
happened to Apple was not mainly markets and technology but cultural.
There
is no magic CEO from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social
system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand
or care about relationships.
MISSION:
The
mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
IT
The mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
-
Information Technology.
The special talent of the human species
is
IT
-
Information Transfer -
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The
MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes
and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers
who catch-on.
IT
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
The
CATCH-ON
factor
Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal,
in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational
ability -
SYNERGY - getting
more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers who catch-on.
has
always taken more than just information.
There has to be an emotional base,
ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences.
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and
doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
LOGOS
= information, knowledge - the subject itself.
ETHOS
= what do we do with
PATHOS = caring - having the interest and doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say.
IT
?
KNOWLEDGE = information + understanding, being a different person doing
things in a different style.
The human synergy shortage in
IT,
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
"For
years, development environments such as Visual Basic have made software
development faster and less complex, opening the field to a much broader
audience than expert programmers alone. Much of this simplicity is achieved
through the use of prebuilt components. Netscape ONE is now delivering
the same benefits, but in a platform-independent and Internet-centric manner.
"
RE:
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
The human synergy shortage in
is
costing companies about $660 billion a year.
It's OK to put a link to another site
on my page, right?
Maybe
not
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-06-1997/nw-
06-bestpract.html
The
GlobalVillages idiots vs. the Web's information utopia. Who wins will affect
you!
RE:
http://developer.netscape.com/library/wpapers/crossware/index.html
The
"soft: hyperlink:
How
we get information has always been important. From the invention of language,
writing, printing, telecommunications, information transfer has always
structured human social life.
The hyperlink created a new way of making
connections. Now the real time search has gone a step beyond a fixed set
of connections.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
The "living web" is created at the moment it
is used.
When
I first started hypertext and web browsers the power of the hyperlink was
an important new information tool. Web pages sprouted with hyperlinks -
you can jump from here to there and the WEB becomes a tangle of interconnected
links.
Then about two years ago, first Excite, then AltaVista offered current
searches. Finding the links without a reference page was more current and
much better.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords"
or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
Now the "soft link" including dozens of "keywords" or sites in advanced searches can create a new category of linkages.
BANDWIDTH
is the word in this Excite search
Lucent
Adds High-Speed Access to Infrastructure
[June 4]
Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced it will be adding digital subscriber line
(DSL) capabilities to its current infrastructure, enabling telcos to offer
high-speed Internet access services.
Lucent
(AT&T) will incorporate the ADSL technology of
Westell
Technologies Inc.
into
its standard copper phone line network. ISPs and other service providers
will be able to offer data transmission speeds of up to 6 Mbps, which is
close to 100 times faster than current rates over standard access lines.
Westell Technologies Inc.
TRADE
SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
RE:
simplified desktop machine, bandwidth and server
http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
there is also one on http://www.businesswire.com/tradeshow/
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
TRADE SHOWS - SUPERCOMM and
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
John Sidgmore.
Java,
internet etc. Maybe a good lead in to the current connections - Supercomm
maybe more important that
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s John Sidgmore.
John Sidgmore.
In
times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space
for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes
may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres,
water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/work-station is a new complex addition to the human life form, way out
on the right of the curve of complexity.
The system is too complex and
when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend
to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is
often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the
battle.
The system is too complex and when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend to be the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes. In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is often unsuited to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among populations :
RE:
TOO rich and too thin ?
I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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I
think it was Lady Astor who said "You can't be too rich or too thin."
Clearly wrong but funny.
There maybe subjects that can never be understood.
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
There are mysteries.
The heart of matter and anti-matter, the trinity,
the face of God, the limits of awareness, and
international
finance:George
Gilder's Articles for
ASAP
- Forbes optic-fiber and other matters
The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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The
international over-supply of "money", credit which may lead to
more and more marginal investments as money flows to less and less likely
projects can create a dynamics that can rather suddenly go "CRASH".
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
The BOOM and the BUST on a global scale !
There
are few methods national governments can use control the international
money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the
"War on Cancer" is not very productive, and the cold war is over,
maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our
global systems.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem
of the first magnitude.
The collapse of the global economy is a security problem of the first magnitude.
THE
problem of modern economics is the dynamic balance between demand and supply.
THE crisis of free markets is over production leading to cut backs, down
sizing, and a unfriendly business cycle. From Marx's to the "supply-siders"
the issue of supply, driven by new technology, has been central to understanding
economics.
With
a Global Economy, the supply question involves free flows of capital to
lower cost areas, pressures to reduce the social overhead, environmental,
and labor standards that make some places more expensive than others.
The
VAT ( value added tax ) helps shifts infrastructure costs off exported
goods ( exports don't pay VAT ) to domestic consumers and tourists. Welfare
reform reduces protection from low wage jobs for natives and reduces the
attraction of undocumented labor.
Short
of War, national deficits create demand without increases in supply. During
a war people are paid to produce goods, therefore becoming consumers, and
the goods produced are designed to be destroyed, so war goods do not enter
the market. This increases demand without increasing supply - if done (within
reason) it does create a reasonable amount of inflation and keeps everyone
working. In an "entitlement" program people are just paid and
therefore can consume without producing. If these entitlement are paid
from loans ( not taxes on other consumers ) the net effect is to increase
demand without increasing supply.
The
nature of market in-stability in a global economy is one of the mysteries
of life. It maybe too complex to understand. Predictions are only guesses
uninformed by a real working model of this new "reality".
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
The
vast injection of capital created by "secure" debts and new methods
of turning assets into "capital" such as the secondary mortgage
markets, may make us TOO Rich and TOO fat. TOO much, TOO soon et al.
The
over-supply of credit and then of more and more marginal investments as
money chases less and less likely projects can than rather suddenly go
"CRASH".
There are few methods national governments can use control
the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics.
Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend
a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
There are few methods national governments can use control the international money supply. First, we need to understand global economics. Since the War on Cancer" is not very productive, maybe we could spend a few billion trying to understand the basis of our global systems.
RE:
Client/Server and the Internet
Dear
Heather:
Start
with
http://www.wiredbrain.net/sample.htm
and
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
ideaweb.htm also
epcot.htm and
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
hotflash.htm
(older) with
intro.htm
newer ... follow the links to Netscape articles Mark.. and Larry at Oracle.
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
The core of the idea is that the server is the NETWORK and the NC is a
utility - almost everything is done upstream - like the Telephone, TV,
water, electric networks. Price will be 10% of the complex user UN-friendly
PC.
The cost of bandwidth ( that makes the network possible ) will be there
with low orbit satellites such as Iridium IOP at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
http://www.msnbc.com/news/77392.asp
and new high capacity wireless modems. Wireless options grow for fast access
By Jeff Pelline
July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
PLEASE
- let me know what you understand and don't which will help me become clearer.
Use the excite search on the index page. Forrester research has been right
so far - others are too committed to current technology (make or sell or
program PCs) or just don't get it !
What
is in the box is not the issue. It could be digital VCR with plug ins,
memory, digital CD-ROM, cable or wireless modems, connected to Digital
TV when it becomes the telephone, the TV, the Fax, the newspaper, library,
yellow pages, bank, travel agent, school and 100's of applications not
yet thought about.
The HIGH ground is at the ISP - the service provider
( working at mega-bytes ) offers programs, games, mail, TV, and access
to conferences, shows, etc. etc. Gates said it was the replacement of the
middle-people - direct sales and service also territorial franchises.
The
driving force are business applications - it costs corporate World Wide
about $8,000 per annum to maintain state of the art Desk-top work stations.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS (
Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters,
all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows
95.
They can do the same and more for 10% of the cost - have a global IS ( Information system ) intranets, extranets, hand held notebooks, tele-commuters, all without the software and complex OS (operating system ) like Windows 95.
Here
is where
Java and other
object programs come it.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
They down load just the parts of programs you
are using. Graphics, word processing ) Corel was WP in
Java
code, desk top office SEAM- LESSLY tied to the server - my records, your
records and their records. This is NOT the end of Windows and the fearsome
Microsoft empire but a BIG crack in the market. Hardware producers don't
care - chips are chips.
But
if basic software is part of service packages , the servers can write,
or buy OBJECTS - not complete packages like Office 97.. a mail object,
a graphic display object, et al. This is Netscape / oracle / sun microsystems
vision.. driven by PRICE not theory. Plus who hasn't used the PC and learned
to have a love hate relationship. 30,000 or so things that can go wrong
and that means something will quite often - with dozens of independent
programs messing with libraries - its a wonder it works at all.
Subject:
Client/Server and the Internet
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:01:14 -0400
From: Heather Eaton Organization:
Eton Associates Communications Consultants
To: pflapflapflapflaump@cfl.rr.comONT FACE="Algerian">
Dear
Dr. Pflaum:
Thank
you for responding so quickly to Kurt's message. I am writing a short article
on the impact of the Internet/Intranet on traditional client/server theories
and methodologies. My client is interested in the business benefits/effects
rather than the technological. I have come across information on
Java
and object oriented software, but this is a new area to me and I need "basic"
information as well. Could you provide me with your thoughts on this subject
and/or direct me to other resources. I will be happy to include your name
and URL in the article.
Best
Regards, Heather Eaton Eton Associates Communications Consultants
http://www.oldmp.com/eacc/
RE:
Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler ( 1967 ) William Greider "One
World" Here I come Ready or not
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
The
"debate" between the PC ( Bill's machine ) and the NC ( Larry's
black box ) is not a "debate" but the function of ExMachina -
the power of technology and global markets beyond anyone's control. Was
there a debate between canals and railroads, between the telegraph and
the pony express ?
In
one of the classic "no-brainer", IBM had the chance to pioneer
the copy market.
They did market research on the use of carbon copies and
the numbers showed such an expensive machine could not be justified based
on current prices and usage.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
They missed the point - technology creates
new markets and applications.
The point is simple - simple is better.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
PC is hopeless complex and the NC is a network utility - people seem to
miss the point - Radio and TV's, telephones, bath tubs, electric lights,
are network utilities, what's in the box is not of great interest, the
network is what matters.
The "only issue" is bandwidth and that
is just a matter of economies of scale and uniform standards. Direct broadcast,
wireless and DSL (ASDL) technology is operational - the cost per unit of
data is dropping faster than the President's pants.
The
high ground is the "service" provider - the utility that connects
the NETWORK computers. For example, A million classrooms and libraries
for 40 million students each with their own "laptop" NC, wireless
telephone, remote digital TV, printer et al for $500.00 and 80% of the
communications cost covered; 50 million cars and trucks each with built
in NC's.. A million public NC stations, ( booths ), replace the yellow
pages, some local newspaper functions, remote billing, banking, a great
debit card on the server keeps accounts, calendar, appointments, travel
arrangements, shops, researches, analysis, speculates, invests, votes,
make dates, music, art, literature - just a few new and old applications
like games and word processing. A few million around the world tele-commuting
to service providers - customer service on Medical Billing from India -
repair advice from Hong Kong - Here comes the
future,
ready or not !
future, ready or not !
TH
E LAPTOP SCHOOL
Check
education in
EXCITE
The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
"I
went to Melbourne with the video crew, and we have shown the video we shot
at Trinity Grammar School to hundreds of American educators. "It shows
them the answer to problems even the most advanced schools face in trying
to ratchet the number of computers up from one for each six pupils or so
to a computer for each student. "It's so much easier to move in one
step with laptop, leaving the school to handle the networking and training."
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
While
some observers have suggested the approach is suited only to wealthy families,
the laptop model has been adopted by several communities not distinguished
by evidence of personal wealth. One rural State school principal sold the
idea to local families by pointing out that a laptop lease cost less than
a case of beer a week. Parents lease or buy, usually lease a computer for
their child for two or three years.
Netscape
Says It's Not Being Sold (5/17) By
DYLAN RATIGAN
c.1997
Bloomberg News
--
Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading
after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy
the Internet software company.
NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
Oracle
Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said Monday they will merge two
subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network computer market. Oracle
will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit to the deal while Netscape
will offer its Navio Communications, Inc.
The combined company will be
known as NCI.
from RedHerring
NEW ROLE FOR the Military: Nation Building
The long term global security issue
involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th
of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest
4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there
is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
In
international and domestic affairs; Military and the Police and law enforcement
can only treat symptoms. Causes must be treated by nation building - at
home in our cities and in Bosnia, the Congo and central Africa, Sudan and
East Africa, Haiti, Latin America, India and China.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
Military
retraining of youth could keep our bases busy rather than closed.
The Army has units of civil government,
public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications,
public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building.
THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is
the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World
Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with
the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient
administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer
for paper money or stamps so they ran out.
They stole everything in sight
so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal"
conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of
trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just
such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often
called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From
Excite Technology
RE:
All the way to China:
China
PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97
SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal
computers is booming and
competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share,
computer producers said on today. Demand
was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest
annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week.
Articles about advances in Artificial
Intelligence:
http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
EXCITE
been upgraded, again, everytime I look there is something new. It takes
some time to get the Excite searches to work right. You have to work with
the key words until you get what you want. Please feel free to add topics
and work on "redefine"
. ALL
the way to China: May
19, 1997 RE:
It's only a game: HOUSEKEEPING:
Please send along your tips and comments.
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
Communicator
beta now has push By
Nick Wingfield May 21, 1997, 2:45 p.m. PT
Netscape Communications has posted
the first public beta version of its Communicator Internet software to
include Netcaster, the company's push technology software.
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
Netcaster
is currently available only for Windows 95 and NT.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
My
son's coach told the team "Don't let anyone intimidate you. If you
get hurt, it's all right to cry, but keep moving." You don't fail
until you quit trying. It's only a game, have a good time but winning is
a lot more fun.
Copies
of the
Policy
is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter
intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically
correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could
may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse
off.
First,
the deceleration of Independence which proclaim a principle of Universal
Human Rights is not objectively correct. It was intended propaganda, not
science.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs
and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the
results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true,
beliefs are not reality.
The is no such "thing" as rights and
the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the
observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form
of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability.
Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral
ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice".
BUT
the greater good of the greater number depends on "realistic"
assessment of complex balances of forces.
China has thousands of years of experience
with a cycle of chaos, regional wars, famine, plague and misery.
Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is
in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they
better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers.
Tough love is often necessary.
If
China was foolish enough the listen to strangers who know nothing of their
history and culture, they could fall into chaos, famine, war lords, misery
and suffering. I am sure that is not what the "reformers" want
but maybe the result of their desire to do good.
The destruction of the
native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions
of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
RE:
The heart of darkness:
"All
happy marriages are alike, unhappy ones are all unhappy in their own way"
as Tolstoy says in the first sentence of Anna Karenina.
All
colonies are unhappy but each unhappy in their own way.
The Congo has been
especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then
the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of
Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable,
frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial
and passing the blame.
The
politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little
of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better
than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
Mon,
26 May 1997 12:24:54 -0700
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"
(by
way of Flemming Funch) To: ncnmain-l@newciv.org
Dear
newcivics,
I
refer to:
Below
is a message from my friend Swami in Kenya. I asked if I could share it,
as I feel it gives it gives a glimpse into very real experience that is
different from what most of us go through, and it shows people making a
difference despite adverse conditions. It is not exactly a positive
message, though.
I
have only yesterday returned from a rather sobering and disheartening trip
to various parts of Zaire, one of the highlights however was being there
when the soldiers of Laurent Kabila took Kinshasa sending Mobutu (long
term megalomaniac, tyrant, dictator, multimillionaire, and sleazeball)
into a shameful exile.
I
was basically on a trouble-shooting, needs-assessment and quality control
mission of our projects. Since the trouble started there and my numerous
visits to the region over the last few years, I had come to believe that
I was now used to seeing dead bodies and suffering; but I was in no way
prepared for the suffering my eyes beheld.
We
are doing much to assist in this tribulation, and may God be pleased with
our efforts. Yet there are times when it feels that even though we are
doing our best, our best is such an insignificant fraction of what is required;
one feels so helpless.
Messages
like this about Africa, whether in print or in picture, leave us dumbfounded.
As
you all know (or might gather from my email address), I live in South Africa.
I have been born here as probably the fourteenth generation of settlers
from European stock. For fourteen generations we have heard here in Africa
one message: "you whites are not welcome here because you are responsible
for our black's misery".
The more my forefathers tried to prevent
misery, the more they were in-advertently caught up in greater powers causing
more misery. Thus we are now at that stage where we function as icons for
all that has been causing misery. Since my childhood, 45 years ago, I have
been reading about similar events and stories of earlier, similar events.
(I am now 52.)
These events are typical of Africa, south and east of that
giant desert - the Sahara.
These events have troubled my heart for many
years. I often troubled my mind trying to understand why such events happened
and what to do to prevent them from happening again.
Nobody
will know if these events were frequent in Africa more than 400 years ago.
The simple reason is that we have no written history going back to earlier
times. But the documentation which we do have since then, is heart touching.
It is especially the documentation of this century which make us weep.
Now,
at the end of this century, you and I are contemplating a new civilization.
I often read with joy about your visions which correspond to mine in many
ways. But I also read them with sadness. Why? Because I am absolutely convinced
that your visions will not bear fruits until such time when Africa is fully
included in them.
Africa,
most probably the birth place of humankind, is your instrument for detecting
what have been done in the rest of the world.
The joys of Africa will show
you if the global village is on the right track.
The pains of Africa will
alert you if the global village is heading for disaster. What are the basic
problems of Africa? How many of these problems stem from one or two radical
(root) problems?
I
believe that Africa now has one radical problem. Its peoples have slowly
been transformed from producing societies to consuming societies. For example,
their leaders consume whatever these peoples are capable to produce without
giving anything back which these leaders themselves have produced, namely
to keep these peoples in step with the rest of the world.
Their merchants
consume their natural riches in the name of trade for fast money which
cannot buy enduring, spiritual qualities. When in times of great tribulation
as referred above to, these peoples cannot even produce medical help for
themselves. If there is nothing left to consume, their only future are
genocide.
What
can we do? We have to break this vicious loop of consumption. Thus we have
to discourage all practices which lead to merely an increase in consumption
while promoting all practices which definitely lead to an increase in production.
We have to this in all realms of human existence: economical, social, political,
educational, spiritual, etc. Whatever we do, we should be extremely sensitive
to the concept of empowerment. We should seek the empowerment of every
person in Africa. We should guard against any act which causes even the
slightest disempowerment of even a small minority. Since a person is empowered
by improving that person's creativity, try not to patronize or intimidate
any creative person. Try to prevent others to do the same. Try to promote
the creativity of every person.
Africa
is now in a moral crisis, probably more so than in the rest of the world.
What is morality? In a certain sense morality is the effective promotion
of the creativity of all fellow humans.
The creativity of the peoples of
Africa has been declining sharply during this century. Likewise the morality
has been declining. If Africa should continue on this path of declining
creativity and morality, the end will be too ghastly to contemplate.
In
my forth-coming book, now in the final stage of edifying the manuscript,
I have kept the plight of Africa constantly in my mind. (Its title will
be "Entropy, creativitity and Learning: how to manage chaos, order
and complexity in nature and culture".) In that book you will learn
about the dynamics and mechanics of creativity. We now know, even in an
intuitive and tacit sense, much more about the mechanics of creativity
than its dynamics.
In
the new civilization we will be rediscovering the dynamics of creativity.
We will see just how important spirituality (as a highly ordered emergent
of creativity) is in this dynamics of creativity. Few of us realize that
Africa has become extremely insensitive to the dynamics of creativity.
This another facet of the radical problem of Africa. Africa thinks that
it is the mechanics of creativity which is driving this world. Africa appears
to be ignorant to the dynamics of creativity. We have to break this ignorance.
Best
wishes -- At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University
of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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The
Laptop school
;
The children take the laptop home every evening, and
can access school resources by modem from home when they need help.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
They
use their laptop in virtually all classes during the school day. "
The
idea of the child owning the computer, and owning the information inside
it, was natural once I understood it," Mr. Sabol said from Seattle.
The Australian spoke with teachers at six laptop-saturated schools, all
of which reported that the enthusiasm and ability of students increased
dramatically in the saturated environment.
c.1997 Bloomberg News
-- Netscape Communications Corp. shares rose Friday in electronic trading after Nasdaq trading closed, on speculation that Oracle Corp. would buy the Internet software company.NEW
YORK (CNNfn) --
The combined company will be known as NCI.
The long term global security issue involves the unequal distribution of wealth. With the richest billion 1/6th of the planet's population having at least 2/3 of the wealth and the poorest 4 billion 2/3 of the population having less than 10 % of the wealth, there is inherent instability - terrorism, and threat to international business.
The Military is involved
in Nation Building in the Third World - the leading example is the Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) in China that has gone into business, big time. This
is not a distraction from the main goal of the "military" but
it's core mission.
The
Roman Empire as most Empires were built and run by the Military.
The false
separation of Civil and Military doesn't work in most places most of the
time. Military does not always mean dictatorship. During the depression
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) was successfully run by the Army.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
The
military was for generation the way to become socialized and a way up and
out for the poor and unskilled. Now they are in jail - a sure way down
and out.
The Army has units of civil government, public Utilities, construction, transportation, police, communications, public works and utilities - useful in disaster, crisis and in Nation Building. THEY say we are not in Bosnia or Africa to do Nation Building, that is the role of the US-AID (Agency for International Development) the World Bank et al - which have a terrible record because they can't deal with the real issues of law and order, basic honest and relatively efficient administration. ( I grew up in Chicago that had it's own problems )
In the Congo they didn't pay the printer for paper money or stamps so they ran out.They stole everything in sight so nothing worked. It's only an extreme case of the "normal" conditions in the third world, corruption, nepotism based on the lack of trust beyond the family, clan or group. Military organization builds just such disciplined trust - in a real army - not the gang of thieves often called the military.
PanAmSat
has launched an Internet carrier service that can beam Internet into
homes via small, low-cost rooftop antennae at 28 times the speed of a standard
14.4 kbps modem.
The system is operating in Japan and the United States,
From Excite Technology
China PC Demand Booming, Competition Fierce
10:00am EDT, 5/16/97 SHANGHAI - China's demand for personal computers is booming and competition is fierce as domestic producers cut prices to grab market share, computer producers said on today. Demand was growing 70 to 80 percent a year, said producers at the country's largest annual computer exhibition being held in Shanghai this week. Articles about advances in Artificial Intelligence:http://nt
.excite.com/ntd.gw?UID=0A01E72D325D9752
The index page is new and improved by removing several tables and
cells it now loads quickly and has the same functions - links to the Synergy
World and the great world of the WWW via search of the web and the news.
All the Synergy Documents are on
http://www.geocities
.com/~wiredbrain/
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
PROGRAMS
worth trying: Mcafee:
MEDIe97e.zip is a big (15Mb) package of crash protectors and backup from
ftp.mcafee.com, ftphost25.mcafee.com, ftphost20, ftpweb, and CNET www.download.com
works better than Nortons' crash guard. It is tied to Backweb channel for
updates. zdnet has a new copy of wordpad and notepad from windows 97.
in http formats as requested. Still problems with
text documents going off into right space and some browsers do not fit
the text to the pages.
ftp://ftp11.netscape.com
ftp1 to 21 pub/communicator/4.0/netcaster4.0b4/n32e40b4.exe -
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C10881%2C00.html?ndh
.idirect
The software can be downloaded from
Netscape's Web site or from CNET's
DOWNLOAD.COM
site.
The MARIMBA channels just take too
much memory for my "old" system. I can hope Netscape can scale
down the idea to work. I had to install several times and give it LOTS
of time to load. Select channels and save to my channel files.
Policy is not simple. Ideology is a poor guide to complex issues which have counter intuitive interactions.
The "good" intentions that requires politically correct "out rage" about "human rights" in China could may have the effect of making the real lives of real people much worse off.
The founding fathers had a realistic knowledge of public affairs and understood that "rights" and "duties" were the results of process, power, propaganda, the play of real world politics.
Saying something does not make it true, beliefs are not reality.The is no such "thing" as rights and the term can mean anything or nothing - it only exist in the mind of the observer with no referent to an external reality and therefore is a form of "Civic Religion" that is quite important in social stability. Ideas are important and have real consequences but are not facts.
Real world politics, rather than moral ideology, is thought of as Machiavellian, and therefore "not nice". Then the
strongest SOB sets up a "hard hearted" central authority that
brings peace and order.
The central authority becomes over time more "human"
and becomes too soft and fuzzy. Confucianism is a civilized system of thinking
about the careful balance between authority and chaos.
The US Constitution
and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families
and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The US Constitution and families tilts towards chaos, China tilts towards authority in families and society. We have a higher percentage of people in prison.
The USS-was authoritarian and now is in chaos, run by local "war-lords" and criminal gangs - are they better off ?. It's not easy, Consider the same issue in raising teenagers. Tough love is often necessary.
The destruction of the native populations of North America was aided and helped by the good intentions of generations of missions and "do-gooders".
The heart of darkness:
The Congo has been especially unhappy as the personal property of the King of Belgium then the booty of the now departed dictator. Joseph's Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" describes all of us, for what we being driven, unreasonable, frighten and darkly passionate for no reason at all and denial, denial and passing the blame.
The politicians speak of China, and the terrible conditions in Cuba but little of Africa or our other "terrible" friends. We are not better than all the others. We are all human and subject to human faults.
From: "Mnr AM de Lange"