All Boiled down on CONVERGENCE AOL: the super market of the world
What does AOL Time Warner ( and Wal-Mart, & some Computer terminal company and cable modem or broadband connection ) mean for the future of global society ? What is the image they pursue ?
CONVERGENCE: Interactive television, combining audio telephone, video conference and cable or satellite TV, video on demand, all designed to advertise and sell on the spot all kinds of good and services.
What is called "entertainment" on television is different from plays, or movies or theme parks or games or sports because the role of "content" is only to attract an audience so they can be sold something.
The job of television is sales - not news or information or entertainment which are only provided so people watch and can be sold something.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only
to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
In the process cable or other broadband can replace a good share of long distance voice, video rentals, VPN virtual private networks, if and only if, the broadband connections really works then personal computers become network devices or
AOL Time Warner believe that whatever the method for the broadband connections they will control the content.
The contact rates - for cable, telephone, Internet and video on demand provide cash flows that support the capital for improved networks and
on-line sales provide the profits.
It's not only that you can buy your tooth paste from the commercial ( click here to add it to your Wal-mart order ) but you might get free samples for filling out forms. You can add with a click to your grocery list. People really will buy travel deals, change banks or brokers, buy records after getting MP3 samples, select household gadgets, buy gifts, use auctions, even pick appliances and cars.
They
will seek better mortgage and insurance rates, look for a new house, and a thousand other products and services.
Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules
If physicist Luke Stewart can do what he says he can send voice, video, and data thousands of miles over electric lines
at the speed of light he will produce perhaps the most significant development in communications since Alexander
Graham Bell.
That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both
earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the
creation and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT.
connected to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our
time - having more importance than the silly political debates, because
economics come from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly
the railroads, automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are
the drivers of our history - culture - social being - and therefore our
economy and political system.
The new world order is not an idea or
ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications.
Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -
disintermediation means becoming the middle person between the buyer and seller. On-line systems such as Amazon.com means direct sales take on a whole new meaning. I would look for a Amazon Wal-mart connection if not merger.
AOL can do what Sears did.
The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
For Example: Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based
web-to-phone service. With Dialpad.com,
you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as
the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your
own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US.
Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software.
You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it
is FREE!weirdbrain ' (wîrd) adj., weird·er, weird·est. Of,
relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural. Of a strikingly
odd or unusual character; strange. Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the
Fates. n.
Fate; destiny. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly
adv. weird'ness n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives
refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature.
Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may
also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person of the house
gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a weird power in
a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear
or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall
on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis
Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling:
“
The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures,
whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly
seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world:
“He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry
Kingsley).
* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast
radio waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas,
such as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations.
But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco
plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money --
and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel
Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any
streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company
offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
).
It’s and illusion, dummy
The Movie the Matrix is much better than one would suspect from the promotion of the violence and special effects. Life as we think we know it is an illusion.
In this case the illusion is caused by a alien life force. People are all plugged into a universal computer where they dream their lives away.
The heroes break loose from the "Matrix" and with some difficulties destroy the agents of the force, save the world and restore freedom to the planet. Some people prefer dreams to reality and ally themselves to the forces of control and domination. In the Truman Story the forces of control is a Television production company.
Two basic ideas - the world is an illusion that controls your mind.
Second, by gaining a higher level of awareness - with special training from a master - the hero can gain super powers to defeat the forces of evil.
This is the ancient legend of the hero with a 1000 faces - who conquers this own sub-conscious fears and monsters, gains wisdom and special powers, to save himself and the values beyond self.
For people who play computer games - they may transfer some of themselves to the action character and begin a fantasy life inside a game.
The Sufi teaching has the same two principles - we are living as in our sleep - sleep walking - in a dark room where we don’t really know where we are or who we are.
The forces of control come from socialization, social and cultural conventions, religious and political dogma, and our fear of freedom.
Second, that practice and discipline from a master will raise our level of consciousness and thereby our powers.
There is evidence of Phi or extra-sensory perceptions and precognition but it is a weak force. Oriental crafts of Volition:
The exercise of the will: Antagonism: RESISTANCE art of self-defense, judo, jujitsu, judo, aikido, karate, kyokushinkai, tae-kwan-do, kung fu, ninjutsu have a important mystic or mind over body element that clearly helps.
From WAKING UP by Charles T. Tart, Ph.D.
Institute of Noetic Sciences,
New Science Library SHAMBHALA (1986)
475 Gate Five Road, #300
Sausalito CA 94965
CC: Box 37, El Cerrito, CA 94530
(From G. I. Gurdjjeff)
also Oscar Ichazo, Arica Training
Idries Shah - Sufis
Smart enough, fast enough ?
They have been told that you have to be very smart and fast in the new global information knowledge economy.
The AOL - Time Warner deal puts great pressure on the Fox - NEWS corp., GE - NBC - Disney ABC - CBS and other media companies. If the business is direct sales via interactive systems then where is Microsoft - NBC - GE ? It also puts pressure on retail systems - already trying to figure out on-line sales. What if AOL - ( with or without Amazon etc ) does an end around and begins to really sell directly on the huge network it now controls with both feet in Europe, Japan, and All Other Lands.
The question of being fast enough - smart enough - Netscape AOL have it - Sears didn’t but could have, maybe GE doesn’t, what about MS - they have shown the ability to catch up quickly when they have to - they will have the hardware in space soon and the connection to GE NBC. Excite and Yahoo are sometimes smart and could connect with Disney - but the times are changing quickly and time gets faster and faster.
Fast and faster:
It took a century for the great infrastructure of railroads. Telephones and electric service required wires, switches and critical mass in up to 50 years. It took 35 years to build enough roads for automobiles to be really useful, cars also need gas stations and repairs and parts. Radio took somewhat less than 25 years to develop the critical networks of stations and cables. Airports developed in 20 years once the practical passenger air craft had been developed. TV reached critical mass in a little under 15 years ( if you start in 1950 ) with cables connecting the stations. Personal computers ( PC ) from 1978 became big business in about 10 years.
The Internet developed into a big business since 1996 so in less than 5 years.
The nature of the infrastructures are different - railroads are steel, bridges and tunnels. Electric power and Telephone requires wires on poles, substations etc. Radio has wires, towers and stations. TV required thick cables and microwave towers. Now satellites connect cable systems and super-stations, the Internet uses optic fiber backbones, so ...
Broadband networks using optic fibers, satellites, wireless wideband and magnetic wave systems could happen in a few years. How can anyone invest billions into systems that could be bypassed or become obsolete before they are installed.
The WWW ( wait, wait, and wait ) is gringing away on the site - THANKS I will wait and be back after I have seen it - but it points out the core problem - little copper wires set up for voice - on a basic technology pushing 100 years will not make it even under the DSL ( a system that could have be used several decades ago. So light the way - light is lighter and faster and generates more light and less heat
OK the site has appeared - nice and clear -
In a photonic computer, each beam of light can undergo millions of calculations in a short amount of time and space. Any single input image can be processed simultaneously since this image is composed of millions of beams of light.
Therefore a massively parallel and cheap supercomputer can be designed.
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/eee2proj/ll197/Memory/Processors2.htm
The capabilities of DOCII is that it is a fully programmable, 32-bit digital optoelectronic processor which operates in a UNIX environment running RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Code) at peak speeds which depending upon
the instruction being executed can perform between 10 million and 12.8 billion, 32-bit operations per second. Because the machine operates at the 5,000 photon per gate level, or 1.2 femtoJoules (fJ) per bit, a reduction in power consumption of approximately three orders of magnitude can be realized with respect to semiconductor implementations.
Borders, periphery, frontiers:
Life and cognizance exists because it is on the edge of quantum and classical physics.
The very small ( nano ) works by most extraordinary rules - objects have properties that allow them to move from here to there without going through the intermediate space. Time is not linear and space bends. Objects themselves appear, take on properties, and then change their character and reappears in a different form or place but only in certain quantum leaps.
The batter swings before his eyes has sent the message to the brain so the batter had not really seen the ball. He reacts before the information has been received.
There is precognition of some sort - a time warp of a few nano seconds - this short time phase maybe the key to the general field theory - it exists as short bursts not as a steady stream or solid state.
It not that we can teleport or go where no person has gone before - but for a fraction of a second some really interesting transformations can take place and we are not really aware of them.
The nano computer ( quantum machine ) will have to fall between the cracks of time - to be stable enough to avoid external noise. Time fractions and division and their codes - seem very interesting along with the big bursts of data - really a far cry from the machine age
Radar uses time in very small numbers to record distance - three dimensional radar in a local media could record a lot of dots and dashes - 1.s and 0.s and read them rather fast. Magnetic resonance has the same or more capacity. As to the industrial revolution we have not seen anything yet.
At the atomic and molecular level the connections can be open and creative rather than mechanical and determined. Uncertainty is a fundamental prerequisite of creativity and life itself.
A really clever computer working with uncertainly could work at this level and have some sort of consciousness. This would be an interesting invention of this next century.
Breaking the borders from machines and biology - atom by atom - MORE interesting is the realization that WE are states of being - our minds and bodies which come and appear and reappear in different ways - from a state of universal quantum state and back to a state of quantum - or something like that so the tone of the machine and the tone of life have the same rhythm
Being in two places at the same time - or going from here to there without passing through the space between.
The nature of matter at this level is little energy spots rather than matter as we experience it, energy that change quantum states - transform from one state to another instantly.
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The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes from one type of physical realization to another --- from gears to relays to valves to transistors to integrated circuits and so on
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On the atomic scale matter obeys the rules of quantum mechanics, which are quite different from the classical rules that determine the properties of conventional logic gates. So if computers are to become smaller in the future, new, quantum technology must replace or supplement what we have now.
The point is, however, that quantum technology can offer much more than cramming more and more bits to silicon and multiplying the clock-speed of microprocessors. It can support entirely new
kind of computation with qualitatively new algorithms based on quantum principles!
Three basic categories of elementary particles were ultimately distinguished: leptons, quarks, and bosons. Leptons and quarks are FERMIONS, the basic constituents of nuclear and atomic structure, or MATTER; BOSONS are the particles that transmit the fundamental FORCES of nature between fermions.
The smallest class of elementary particles is that of the massless bosons, which comprises the PHOTON, gluon, W AND Z PARTICLES, and the hypothetical graviton.
The lepton class contains twelve particles: ( six of one and a half dozen of the other) the electron, muon, tauon, and their antiparticles, and the neutrino or antineutrino associated with each.
The QUARKS, the third class, also number twelve: the whimsically named up, down, charm, strange, top (or truth), and bottom (or beauty) quarks and their antiparticles. Quarks are always found in pairs or triplets with other quarks or antiquarks to form particles called hadrons.
In the begining there was the big bang.
Then all was dark for awhile.
The force of gravaty produced matter and stars and light. Most of the stuff remained dark with antimatter and antigravity.
The mind of the universe moves from simple to complex, in a pattern of relationships too complex to happen purely by chance.
The system desired to become aware of itself or there would be no point in the exercise.
The system desires to become aware of itself or there would be no point in existence. Such a system has a planner or architect, producer, creator, maker, mastermind, Nature the Creator, the Master Builder, THE DEITY originator, inventor, discoverer, mover, prime mover, instigator, MOTIVATOR founding father, founder, founding member, establisher, CAUSE begetter, PARENTAGE creative worker, poet, writer, AUTHOR as our founding freemason fathers drew as this symbol: